(sorry for out-of-order post; I deleted the OP's before replying)
On Sat, 2013-07-06 at 10:40 -0500, Joseph Hesse wrote:
I have the following as the last line of my /etc/fstab file on a computer running CentOS6.4..
UUID=3b550884-8d05-41a5-a205-17b6d7269dd1 /mnt ext3 rw,suid,dev,exec,noauto,nouser,async 0 2
This final "2" should be a zero. You've told the system to check the disk at boot time. If the disk doesn't exist then fsck will abort and the machine will drop to single-user mode prompt.