On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
