On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 05:52, Dick Roth <raroth7@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I just put a USB hard drive into service, but find that unless the drive
> is connected to my PC the machine won't boot and drops to a shell.
> Below is the line I added to fstab. ÂI thought that the option "noauto"
> would prevent the machine from trying to mount the drive
>
> /dev/sdb       /usbdrive      ext3  Âuser,noauto,rw Â0 2
>
> What am I doing wrong? ÂAny advice is welcome.
>
What is on the drive? If it's something critica, such as your /home or
/etc directory, then of course the system won't make it to runlevel 5
without it.
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