Hi, for the last 4 days I've been again experiencing problems with my usb disks at boot. Right now it is not as bad as before, it fails around 75% of the boots which is still unacceptable. The problem was totally solved with udev-168-2. But at some point, currently udev-171-1, the problem was back. Sorry I can not be more precise as I don't boot the system every day. Has been any changes again in this respect? Hector PD: I use the old thread so I don't have to explain again the problem which is below detailed. On 17 May 2011 14:19, Hector Martinez-Seara <hseara@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > After the last kernel update (I guess) I cannot boot my system if a > external usb disk is present in /etc/fstab. I use default fstab mount > options for the disks and they have each a single 1GB ext4 partition. > Note that the disk mount okay when mounted from the command line after > booting. Two identical disks has been tested with the same result so > is not a hardware problem. The disks tested are two Western digital > 1TB Essential Edition 2.0 (Model: wd10000h1u). > > In fact this problem was happening very seldom before (1 every 100 > reboots) due to to the waking up time of the devices but now it is > every boot (only once worked). My question is: Has any thing changed > regarding the usb at boot time lately in the kernel? In fact, I have > notice a considerable speed up in the booting sequence up to the point > where the file system checking is done. Maybe the changes to speed up > the booting process have something to do with the problem I'm having? > > In my case it looks like nothing is been asked to my external drives > when checking the filesystems at boot. Just after, the system fails > claiming that it has not found the disks. In the past (two days ago), > some activity in ligths and spining up sound was present when the > system was checking the filesystems, but now everything is quiet. > > It is anybody else having the same problem? > > In the meanwhile, as I do not use this disk for booting I have add the > nofail option to the fstab for the two disks. Now obviously everything > works but the drives are not mounted. Does anybody know the best place > to add the mount commands for the drives so they are always accessible > for the users after boot? > > Thanks in advance, > Hector > -- > Hector Martínez-Seara Monné > mail: hseara@xxxxxxxxx > Tel: +34656271145 > Tel: +358442709253 > -- Hector Martínez-Seara Monné mail: hseara@xxxxxxxxx Tel: +34656271145 Tel: +358442709253
