There is a kernel option you can give to solve this problem, in /boot/grub/grub.con add to the end of the kernel line:
rootdelay Xs
where x is the amounty of time to wait before /root is mounted, however this is valid for everything else as well.
play with X until you get it right.
Jobst
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 02:15:25PM +0100, Mogens Kjaer (mk@crc.dk) wrote:
I have a CentOS 5 machine with an external 500G USB disk, formatted with JFS.
How do I get this to mount automatically at boot time?
If I add to /etc/fstab:
/dev/sdb1 /var/video jfs defaults 1 2
fsck.jfs complains at boot time:
Error: Cannot open device /dev/sdb1
Usage: fsck.jfs ...
...
Give root password for maintenance ...
If I log in with the root password, /dev/sdb1 is present, and I can run
fsck.jfs -f /dev/sdb1
without problems. After ctrl-D it reboots, and gives the above error again.
I have to log in as root, remount,rw / and remove the /dev/sdb1 line from /etc/fstab to get it to boot.
The problem is not related to JFS; it occurs with an external ext3 file system as well.
How do I mount /dev/sdb1 automatically at boot?
Mogens
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