How to prevent disconnected usb HD from completing the boot process

casacristo · 2011-10-19 07:57:38

Hello,

I have an ext4 usb HD setup on fstab (dev/sdb1) to be mounted on /video

If the hard drive is not connected at boot time or another hard drive say with FAT is connected instead, then the system doesn´t boot

There is a process running as user vdr that requires write access to /video

As this is a headless PC and I connect to it via ssh all I know is that the ssh daemon is not running

How should I alter the settings so that the hard drive is mounted if it is connected, but the PC boots fine regardless?

bluewanders · 2011-10-19 08:43:56

try adding the 'nobootwait' option to the fstab entry for that drive...

casacristo · 2011-10-19 13:18:17

but nofail should do the job, I will try tonight

cyberscan · 2011-10-19 18:05:09

remove "usb usbinput" from /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and reinstall the kernel.

casacristo · 2011-10-25 16:10:07

nofail worked, thanks!

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