On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Greg Kelley wrote: > Is anyone else using an external USB-2.0 Hard Drive? If so, perhaps you can > help me figure out what's up with mine. If I do a reboot with the drive > powered up, I get a kernel panic when it gets to mounting it. I can see the > USB-2.0 support loaded, but I don't think the drive is getting recognized > before the system tries to mount it. I have to power it off, comment out the > mount entry in fstab, reboot, power up the drive (it's then recognized and > registered via USB drivers) and then uncomment out the mount entry in fstab > and mount it manually.
A workaround might be to add a noauto to the appropriate line in fstab so... /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usbhd ext3 noauto,defaults 1 3 so the kernel will not automatically try to mount it at boot time. You should be able to leave it all plugged in and then when everything has booted up, just mount it then. Steve H ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
