> 
> Hello -
> 
> I happened to reboot my server last night without a disk in one of the
> cdrom drives.  It caused the startup process to halt, dropping me to a
> shell prompt as it tried to fsck the volume.  Wasn't happy proceeding
> until I fed the drive a disk.  In my environment this is A Bad Thing;
> there may be a disk in there or not, I need the freaking server to come up
> and start running regardless.
> 
> I checked my fstab, and the cdroms are listed thusly:
> 
> /dev/acd0c              /cdrom          cd9660  ro,auto         0       0
> /dev/acd1c              /cdrom1         cd9660  ro,auto         0       0
> 
> Looking at the man page, the last column indicates the fsck type, and 0 is
> supposed to mean that the device doesn't need to be checked during
> startup.  Am I doing something wrong, or is something broken?
> 4.6.2-STABLE, BTW.

I think you also want to make it  'noauto'  rather than 'auto'.
With the auto, you are telling it to try and mount the device and
since there is no disk in, it can't.

////jerry

> 
> KeS
> 

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