-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Abhinav Sahai writes: > Hi,
> I have 4 partitions on my dual boot laptop, loaded with Ubuntu 10.04 and Xp. > Initially i could use 3 of the 4 partitions in Ubuntu while all 4 in Xp. The > 4th partition was detected as RAW system in ubuntu. To get all 4 working, i > just re-formatted the 4th one through Xp, a NTFS partition. Now when i start > my machine in ubuntu, at the start, before login screen, i get this message: > The disk drive for /windows is not ready yet or not present. >> Continue to wait; or Press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery. >> > I tried waiting....but the wait never ended. > I tried M, it gave me the shell, not sure what to do then. > I tried S, i could login and to my surprise, I could use the partition > normally. > So now i can use the partition but each time at startup I have to press S > to skip that screen. > I know it is the sda9 partition, so I checked the /etc/fstab file : it says: > # /windows was on /dev/sda9 during installation > UUID=800E-359A /windows vfat defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1 > So i added the line: > /dev/sda9 /media/82gb ntfs-3g defaults,user,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0 >> I'm not sure about this, but ntfs-3g is a FUSE filesystem, and FUSE filesystems require a user-space daemon, to respond to filesystem requests - From kernel space, which is probably not available at the time of boot (from initramfs, I assumed it, as it's not much clear from your post where you get that message). Just to verify this conclusion, replace ntfs-3g with ntfs (the read-only and limited write capabable driver present in kernel), and mount options to "defaults,ro". If this evaluates to true, I recommend restoring "ntfs-3g" line, and adding "noauto" to mount opts, so it only get mounted by mount/HAL/DeviceKit (whichever in use), when you explicitly try to mount it, or try to browse the filesystem of the disk in explorer, or remove it from fstab(5) completely and add it to autofs[1] (not sure if this is going to work at all). References: [1] http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Automount.html HTH - -- Ashish SHUKLA “ECC curves are divided into three groups, weak curves, inefficient curves, and curves patented by Certicom” (Peter Gutmann, 2001-08-10) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJNX51mAAoJEMdGz6nnT6SwdkAQAIPPtepvd1ElvBwx0lxOG8iM 6Sl2EHEDyOTnVGhuXfkEmeEnuyTXZe4y4vjYNooAB/Vz7cOzjlnDCr83vimCeVka aZF02P+pllph6YQeP8zjd6Hkl/lQZ4xyeyouY8d52mTVqz0M04NPKrhSLGw1UnjM hbb4dzmrijifJkgINqgS0RzHQeGi2Yfp021NGW9OWYsJJcGAzVWr/pm/44mcevGR 9lpdc62udYBNFJK5aQZhh3cv43mnhCIBgNzeH2VjsnOrGZn4lLJZ1wsLVNqmTv4R aSM1MFVFEQMI3KWJNcuCmQm0Q8XWF4JSLrXbWUOk9LjAJaGHnvAPuuj99GqbdrTB d9U/Mhvo0AS9h0+1HBzuFW799YmnJTLjz49FaRdY0zjzxswuxSifRZUtr+HI5h3U ocPD/Kp9fDdtnyJHivzkUtb/dC4OfyUugzIsGGtE4lS94i86aLMAyY1aCO1scMib FEFsDu3yhVfYdgN4mY0PFo46T81JzxJno56bXei89aUD71SekSXVN7axMGJ6903+ zsc41V202jlgNqbUHc2AEL9N4uqMdkPPnLZ75FTZDAy1jljpw478OVOjT2x/cwC1 AJdlevICx6ixGrVV9/PRkOqJ1CeDPMxakK3IAa5/ffClqFVw2LW8wqqQnEFw2NSm msuw/iY0Bkf4pVsrLsbt =npwX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
