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holscher

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Mounting USB HDs at boot...

Help!
The system doesn't "know" my usb hds when it tries to mount it at boot. "Can't find UUID" or something like that.
I can mount them with "mount -a" as soon as I log in...
Putting "mount -a" in rc.local didn't work

Thanks

fukawi2

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Re: Mounting USB HDs at boot...

Can you post your /etc/fstab please?

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holscher

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Re: Mounting USB HDs at boot...

dang! i forgot..

http://pastebin.com/m5330fae0

fukawi2

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Re: Mounting USB HDs at boot...

I assume it's either the /media/wd or /media/maxtor mounts that aren't working...

IIRC, 'users' isn't a valid keyword for the options column of fstab - have you tried removing that, and adding defaults so it's just:

#
UUID=4859-50F3    /media/wd        vfat    defaults,auto,rw,user      0 0

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holscher

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Re: Mounting USB HDs at boot...

It didn't help...

I really think the problem is that it somehow "detects" my usb hds AFTER it tries to mount the partitions on them. Hence the error at boot: "... UUID... doesn't exist" x 2 (I never have time to write the exact message down). How do I change this?

btw, I'm trying to mount both /media/wd and /media/maxtor. Two different usb hds.

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Re: Mounting USB HDs at boot...

Can you post your DAEMONS and MODULES lines from rc.conf?

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holscher

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Re: Mounting USB HDs at boot...

Here you go: http://pastebin.com/m70cb3d94

fukawi2

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Re: Mounting USB HDs at boot...

I'm out of ideas, sorry

Anyone else?

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Inxsible

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Re: Mounting USB HDs at boot...

Maybe you could try using the device names instead of UUIDs - just to see if that works.
/dev/sdc2 and /dev/sdd1

#
#/dev/sdc2 /media/wd    vfat    rw,users,umask=111,dmask=000    0 0
#
#UUID=4859-50F3 /media/wd       vfat    rw,users,uid=99,gid=99,fmask=0113,dmask=0002    0 0
#
/dev/sdc2 /media/wd        vfat    auto,rw,user,users      0 0
#
#/dev/sdd1 /media/maxtor        vfat    rw,users,umask=111,dmask=000    0       0
#
#UUID=4858-3C62 /media/maxtor   vfat    rw,users,uid=99,gid=99,fmask=0113,dmask=0002 0  0
#
/dev/sdd1 /media/maxtor    vfat    auto,rw,user,users 0    0

Last edited by Inxsible (2008-07-31 14:15:37)

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holscher

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Re: Mounting USB HDs at boot...

Maybe you could try using the device names instead of UUIDs - just to see if that works.
/dev/sdc2 and /dev/sdd1

As far as I remember it was the same when I had it configured like that. (I will try it out when I'm done playing Civilization )
I need to use UUID for obvious reasons...

holscher

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Re: Mounting USB HDs at boot...

weird! It somehow worked once when I uncommented one of the harddrives. When I rebooted it didn't work again.
Using /dev/.. instead of UUID doesn't change anything.

holscher

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Re: Mounting USB HDs at boot...

Anybody?

fukawi2

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Re: Mounting USB HDs at boot...

Just to try and isolate the problem, try disabling HAL for a reboot and see if it works... I'm thinking maybe HAL conflicting with the boot sequence trying to mount the drives?

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Re: Mounting USB HDs at boot...

Put the USB Hook to mkinitcpio.conf

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holscher

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Re: Mounting USB HDs at boot...

Put the USB Hook to mkinitcpio.conf

YES!

That worked. thank you so much!

Help:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mkinitcpio