Advice needed on boot problem
James Wilkinson
ubuntu at westexe.demon.co.uk
Thu May 12 16:44:02 UTC 2005
R Kimber wrote:
> /dev/sda4 /mnt/pd ext2 noauto,defaults 0 2
then quoted the dmesg file.
Way after everything else is mounted (and Linux systems normally run
fsck on a filesystem before mounting it), it had:
> Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
> scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
> USB Mass Storage support registered.
> usb-storage: device found at 3
> usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
> tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
> tg3: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX.
> Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 750 Rev: 77.u
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
> usb-storage: device scan complete
> Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
So if the USB modules aren't even loaded when fsck runs, then it's going
to have a hard time fscking /dev/sda4.
Try changing the fsck line I quoted to
/dev/sda4 /mnt/pd ext2 noauto,defaults 0 0
James.
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