Hey Robin, Thanks for the reply. Yea that was the first thing I tried when I realized that I could remount the drive after logging in. That was my first clue that it was a timing issue. The reason I kind of didn't want to use this as a solution was because this drive holds the vmware virtual machines that this box will host. So shutting down the box with the current settings in the rc dirs would have the iscsi drive unmounted before the vms were shutdown.
So that's why I needed to have the start up and shutdown rc scripts start iscsi first then vmware and on shutdown stop vmware then iscsi. Otherwise on shutdown the vm's would be left in an inconsistent state and may become corrupt. Thanks for the suggestion. Ralph Robin Price II wrote: > Have you tried taking out the fstab entry and putting in your mount > commands in rc.local? > > -- Robin > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Ralph Crongeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Hi all, > The problem: > I'm having a problem getting an iscsi volume to be mounted on boot. > > What does work: > I can mount the volume/disk "/etc/sda1" after booting with no problem. > > Discoverys: > I have found that using the fstab option "defaults,_netdev" does > what it > says it does and only try's to mount the drive after networking is up. > However the drive is not available when the "netfs" script is run > via "/etc/rcX.d/S25netfs" so it cannot mount the drive. If I move > netfs to > be launched later say "/etc/rcX.d/S60netfs" the drive is mounted. > > Is there a fix for this? > > Thanks > > Ralph > > One more thing, I will be using this SAN drive for holding some > VM's (using > Vmware) and Vmware installs the start script as "S19vmware" so the > drive > will never be mounted before vmware starts. > Obviously this is a problem. > > -- > Reminds me of my expedition into the wilds of Afghanistan. We lost our > corkscrew and were compelled to live on food and water for several > days. - > WC Fields > > > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list > _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
