Re: [gentoo-user] External hard disk doesn't mount on boot

[Dan Cowsill]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 20 March 2008, Dan Cowsill wrote:
>  > Right, so I have an external USB hard drive always hooked up to my
>  > machine.  I've a listing in /etc/fstab to mount it at boot.
>  > Unfortunately, the drive does not boot because localmount can't find
>  > /dev/sda1.  Now, after the boot process I can find /dev/sda1 and
>  > mount the drive just fine, leading me to believe that localmount
>  > tries to mount the drive without populating /dev with USB devices.
>  >
>  > How could I resolve this?
>
>  The canonical way is of course to use udev to run a mount script as soon
>  as the usb drive's device is created. This is hard and requires much
>  googling.
>
>  The hackish, kludgy, totally not recommended method that always works is
>  to put a call to 'mount -a' in /etc/local.d/local.start
>
>  :-)
>
>
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>  Alan McKinnon
>  alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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>

I'll look into the canonical and implement the hackish.  Thanks for
the help, I'll report back when I can.

Cheers

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Dan Cowsill
http://www.danthehat.net
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