CIFS VFS error -101 - can't boot

[Noah Garrett Wallach]

Hi there,

What is the best way to fix the following issue?

I have an external drive that has failed and not reachable auto mounted 
in the /etc/fstab .

Now one of my linux servers is not booting.  I am using the LVM file 
system which I am not completely familiar with mounting from the rescue 
mode.

The error that is on the screen at the time of it hanging during boot
says

--- snip ---
CIFS VFS: Error connecting to socket. Aborting operation
CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -101
--- snip ---


What are my options here?

Cheers