From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JcOSH-0006Ws-Ff for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:21:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3B051E09AA; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:21:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.237]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1243EE09AA for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:21:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h30so962347wxd.10 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:21:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=B4Z1ZAM2ZyH72kRXcW3gwntuwkCtUaX7woSdEaEVFK8=; b=D9lvn0z3lF7is5nOL+Hqn4a2L/AS2kh0oW/ZXPbk/i39xJsRpo9majVvERxEa98SYtr9K3adFZrBk/HIpcwdWwrRdZy1YM85sV0MHz50t4bf/5b5zpaMiA5W04eTJXxTfZ7eJEioRSxKxukZzJqsKEi1oo3RfAowlE2psmHNh90= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=fz3DPYetrKL0SIOazdjC4vdN1UADg65RkJBNsqT6O6QQf7C5nA7mmyNYJNWVBxRxsRTQD3FcFNRU7d+KSCJDC2gkNFxAvaOqz+qT6UHEFbNDG+JE39sy2SgExx5B+AMb2tZJG41BvCQ5Yycp5/kZZA8cIln/L0V3OH3rdU/Dayk= Received: by 10.141.15.19 with SMTP id s19mr907826rvi.205.1206033684261; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:21:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.212.16 with HTTP; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:21:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4ef07b8c0803201021o3d283999h41fa39f0490faff3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:21:24 -0500 From: "Dan Cowsill" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] External hard disk doesn't mount on boot In-Reply-To: <200803201801.25992.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4ef07b8c0803200722o2bea74c5wa253efaf78e2d708@mail.gmail.com> <200803201801.25992.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 2e0286c6-6455-4fc0-a06f-1d56a1eb24ed X-Archives-Hash: 31ee62351b787b55e2bfa006040dba62 On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Alan McKinnon 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 > > :-) > > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > I'll look into the canonical and implement the hackish. Thanks for the help, I'll report back when I can. Cheers -- Dan Cowsill http://www.danthehat.net -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list