problem with bootup sequence and HD mounting

[Marius Gedminas]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 10:16:36AM +1100, Lex Hider wrote:
> I installed Ubuntu warty on my brothers computer the other day.
> He has one normal IDE drive where we installed linux and 2x200G SATA
> drives for data.
> 
> These 2 drives would not get mounted at /etc/init.d/mountall.sh because
> it said that the devices, (/dev/sda1, /dev/sdb1 from memory?) didn't
> exist.
> 
> However, the drives were mounted fine if I put something like 'mount -a'
> in /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh.
> 
> I'm guessing this has something to do with the order the various boot
> stuff is run in?

I perhaps had the same problem with software RAID devices.  The problem
turned out to be udev -- it created device nodes (/dev/mdX) for RAID
devices slightly too late, so I had to add an init.d script that did
'sleep 5' before mountall.sh.

Marius Gedminas
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