On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 22:00:37 +0000, Marko wrote: > On Wednesday 09 December 2009 18:59:19 Bill Davidsen wrote: > > David wrote: > > > During boot I want to mount an iso9660 file as a loop device. The iso > > > file is on a ext3 partition labelled HUGE_01 which is mounted at > > > /mnt/huge. > > > > > > FILE = /mnt/huge/get/iso/Fedora-12-i386-DVD/Fedora-12-i386-DVD.iso > > > MOUNTPOINT = /mnt/Fedora-12-i386-DVD. > > > > > > The mount succeeds. However during boot I get this unnecessary failure > > > message: > > > > > > Mounting local filesystems: [ OK ] > > > [snip] > > > Mounting other filesystems: mount: according to mtab > > > /mnt/huge/get/iso/Fedora-12-i386-DVD/Fedora-12-i386-DVD.iso is already > > > mounted on /mnt/Fedora-12-i386-DVD as loop [ FAILED ] > > The proper question is why do you mount it twice? Not really. > If it should be > automatically mounted at boot, the fstab entry should be enough. However, it > seems that you or the system is trying to mount it again later during boot. > You need to locate where in the boot process is this happening. What messages > are between the two tries? IOW, what is in the [snip] part? Enough output is available in the quotes. "Mounting local filesystems" is in rc.sysinit. "Mounting other filesystems" is in netfs service script. The former does: action $"Mounting local filesystems: " mount -a -t nonfs,nfs4,smbfs,ncpfs,cifs,gfs,gfs2 -O no_netdev The latter does: action $"Mounting other filesystems: " mount -a -t nonfs,nfs4,cifs,ncpfs,gfs So, both mount iso9660 file-systems, and unlike other types of mounts, iso9660 prints that ugly warning. You can run those mount -a ... lines manually for testing. The work-around I've used is to mount them with option _netdev added in fstab. That mounts iso9660 within the netfs service script, which is not exactly right here, but good enough and an alternative to doing it manually in rc.local -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines