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I am running opensuse 11.0 on a Dell Latitude D800 laptop.
If I have my external USB Maxtor drive connected, I can boot just fine.
If I don't have the drive plugged in, I get the following messages:
(Which I had to type because I couldn't find any log file with these messages.)
The usb drive gets mounted as /media/OneTouch4 and /media/Maxtor2, so these aren't essential partitions.
What do I need to change to get it so I can boot whether or not my external drive is plugged in?
Thanks,
Steve
Code:
Checking file systems...
fsck 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008)
error on stat() /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Maxtor_OneTouch_2HA11LLW-0:0-part2: No such file or directory
error on stat() /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Maxtor_OneTouch_2HA11LLW-0:0-part4: No such file or directory
Linux_Boot: clean, 66/65280 files, 17172/261048 blocks
error on stat() /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Maxtor_OneTouch_2HA11LLW-0:0-part2: No such file or directory
error on stat() /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Maxtor_OneTouch_2HA11LLW-0:0-part4: No such file or directory
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1600BEVE-_WD-WXC308386492-part6: clean, 450036/3022848 files, 10329996/12068823 blocks
error on stat() /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Maxtor_OneTouch_2HA11LLW-0:0-part2: No such file or directory
error on stat() /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Maxtor_OneTouch_2HA11LLW-0:0-part4: No such file or directory
opt: clean, 134717/655776, files, 1251485/2622603 blocks
error on stat() /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Maxtor_OneTouch_2HA11LLW-0:0-part2: No such file or directory
error on stat() /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Maxtor_OneTouch_2HA11LLW-0:0-part2: No such file or directory
error on stat() /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Maxtor_OneTouch_2HA11LLW-0:0-part4: No such file or directory
Failed to open the device '/dev/disk/by-id/usb-Maxtor_OneTouch_2HA11LLW-0:0-part2': No such file or directory
error on stat() /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Maxtor_OneTouch_2HA11LLW-0:0-part4
Failed to open the device /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Maxtor_OneTouch_2HA11LLW-0:0-part4: No such file or directory
ehci-hcd ohci-hcd uhci-hcd usb-ohci usb-uhci
fsck failed for at least one filesystem (not /).
Please repair manually and reboot
I am running opensuse 11.0 on a Dell Latitude D800 laptop.
If I have my external USB Maxtor drive connected, I can boot just fine.
If I don't have the drive plugged in, I get the following messages:
(Which I had to type because I couldn't find any log file with these messages.)
The usb drive gets mounted as /media/OneTouch4 and /media/Maxtor2, so these aren't essential partitions.
What do I need to change to get it so I can boot whether or not my external drive is plugged in?
Don't use /media/ for items in /etc/fstab. If there is an entry in /etc/fstab, then hal won't mount it. The subdirectories in /media/ are created and destroyed on the fly. Using a subdirectory under /mnt would be a better place.
You can use the "noauto" mount option in /etc/fstab. This will allow you mount it later using the mount point as an argument, but will let the system boot normally if it isn't plugged in. Together with the "user" or "users" option, you could mount it as a regular user. If you want exclusive access when it is mounted on "this" system, simply change the ownership and permissions of the mounted filesystem.
Removing or commenting out these entries is another option. Then they will be automounted under /media/. HAL/PolicyKit under SuSE will refuse to automount a partition if there is an entry in /etc/fstab. Here some distro's are different.
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