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jago25_98 11-03-2009 12:12 PM
Boot process halts on `Waiting for device....sda4/3" for all partitions in fstab
 
How do I start to diagnose this problem?

When I start to boot the process starts waiting for the various devices mentioned in /etc/fstab, and it doesn't get beyond this.

The distro is actually Ubuntu, but the process of figuring out what's wrong should apply to all distros.

jstephens84 11-03-2009 12:21 PM
what output does it give? can you post your /etc/fstab?

jago25_98 11-03-2009 01:02 PM
Code:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>  <type>  <options>      <dump>  <pass>
proc                                                /proc                proc        defaults                                                                                0        0
# /dev/sda8
#UUID=4111834b-26e3-4ae6-aac0-c40ae8acec1a        /                ext3        relatime,errors=remount-ro                                                                0        1
UUID=4111834b-26e3-4ae6-aac0-c40ae8acec1a        /                ext3        noatime,nodiratime,errors=remount-ro,data=writeback                                        0        1
# /dev/sda6
UUID=cb055cba-db2b-4fb7-adf9-e09702661fe6        /home                ext3        relatime                                                                                0        2
# /dev/sda7
UUID=89439604-b5c7-42c0-9da4-0cc7c232a2b2        none                swap        sw                                                                                        0        0
/dev/scd0                                        /media/cdrom0                        udf,iso9660                user,noauto,exec,utf8                                        0        0
/dev/sda2                                        /mnt/xp                ntfs-3g force,user                                                                                0        0
/dev/sda10                                        /mnt/linstor        ext3        relatime                                                                                0        0
/dev/sda9                                        /mnt/winstor        ntfs-3g                force,user                                                                        0        0

jstephens84 11-03-2009 05:59 PM
Try commenting out your lines with the /mnt/ on their. See then if it works. That way we know it can at least boot the regular filesystems.

jago25_98 11-04-2009 03:07 AM
thanks and I'm already ahead of you on that one, just done it and it's the same. It's also waiting for /tmp, but there is no /tmp ?

I wanted to post the exact message here but I can't see it listed in

/var/log/messages , log/kernel log/dmesg or log/daemon ?


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