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It has mounted successfully a few times. I set it up because I don't want /var on my Revodrive, and I've added a label (var) to the partition. I've tried mounting at first by UUID, then label, then strictly by dev (which isn't an option considering the number of block devices I have attached at any given time).
I have to manually mount var afterward, and this causes all sorts of hal problems with KDE, such as not being able to see my hard drives in Dolphin.
Any ideas? I have another mechanical HDD that I'm going to be using as a download drive, so I could locate var there if needed.
Here is my daemons array in rc.con:
DAEMONS=(dbus hal network rpcbind nfs-common syslog-ng samba sshd alsa sensors netfs)and fstab
devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid 0 0
/dev/mapper/sil_bgbgdjaddicbp1 / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1
/dev/mapper/sil_bgbgdjaddicbp2 /home ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1
UUID=31061fe9-f3de-40d3-93da-c0fce7ed5014 /boot ext2 defaults 0 0
#UUID=7fb98876-0e33-44b8-90e4-f2a103dd0166 /var reiserfs defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-label/var /var reiserfs defaults,noatime 0 0
none /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noatime,size=1000M,mode=1777 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,size=6G 0 0Last edited by DarksideEE7 (2010-12-23 10:16:59)
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I resized the 500GB sata drive in order to create a 12 GB reiserfs, set a label var2, then changed fstab to mount it by label. I guess init doesn't start up usb block devices earlier enough to mount them like that.
If anyone has a good explanation for this I would like to know, just for the sake of knowledge. Too often I fix things (or others help) and I never get an actual understanding of why this fixed it.
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Someone will probably come up with a better solution, and I don't even know if that will fix your problem, but you could try adding "usb" to the beginning to the HOOKS line in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf. I think it is needed to be able to boot from a usb disk. (You'll have to run "mkinitcpio -p kernel26" afterwards.)
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Someone will probably come up with a better solution, and I don't even know if that will fix your problem, but you could try adding "usb" to the beginning to the HOOKS line in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf. I think it is needed to be able to boot from a usb disk. (You'll have to run "mkinitcpio -p kernel26" afterwards.)
That makes sense. I actually prefer using the sata drive as /var, but I was just interested as to why it wasn't mounting.
BTW I have GRUB and boot installed on the same USB drive (from which I boot), then it mounts the root and home partitions on my OCZ Revodrive. This drive is essentially fakeraid with an sil satalink controller, and I was never able to get grub installed on the dmraid setup. I just gave up. It actually works quite well though.
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