problem with bootup sequence and HD mounting

[vextorspace]

Lex Hider Wrote: 
> Hi,
> 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?
> 
> Lex.
> 
> 
> -- 
> ubuntu-users mailing list
> ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users

Exactly.  If you look in /etc/rcS.d you will find S30checkfs.sh,
S35mountall.sh, and S40hotplug.  The sata drives do not show up in /dev
until after S40hotplug is run, so I moved S40 hotplug to S30hotplug and
S30checkfs.sh to S31checkfs.sh.  This fixed all my problems.


-- 
vextorspace