On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 05:52, Dick Roth <raroth7 at comcast.net> wrote: > I just put a USB hard drive into service, but find that unless the drive > is connected to my PC the machine won't boot and drops to a shell. > Below is the line I added to fstab. I thought that the option "noauto" > would prevent the machine from trying to mount the drive > > /dev/sdb /usbdrive ext3 user,noauto,rw 0 2 > > What am I doing wrong? Any advice is welcome. > What is on the drive? If it's something critica, such as your /home or /etc directory, then of course the system won't make it to runlevel 5 without it. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com