I can mount my hda1 and my external USB hard drive, but I can't mount my hdb1 internal
hard drive and each time I edit the "fstab" file to make this possible I get
10,000 lines of this during bootup:
Cannot execute "/sbin/getty"
Init Cannot execute "/sbin/getty"
Init execute "/sbin/getty"
Init Id "2" respanning too fast"
disabled for 5 minutes
After 5 minutes it repeats it all over again, over and over non-stop. One day
I even left it for a couple of hours just to see if it would break out of it,
it did not.
Next, I boot using an old SimpleMepis CD, go into fstab and delete what I had
edited in. Reboot and all is well again.
The crazy thing about this is, on the second hard drive with etch installed
on it too I did the hole thing all over again. Had the same exact problem.
I use kedit or nano to edit the "fstab" file and have used both on all systems
files without ever any problems.
Heres a copy of my fstab and the only thing I have edited in this file is the
one line shown below, line No.5: (I added the line numbers just now)
1 # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
2 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
3 /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
4 /dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
5 /dev/hdb1 /media/hdb1 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
6 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
7 /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
8 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
9 /dev/sda1 /media/usb0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
After the first hang I switched to nano from kedit and it didn't matter it
still hung.
I have two internal hard drives with etch installed on both and a USB external
backup hard drive. I use GRUB to boot the two internal hard drives.
On the first hard drive(hda1) I'm on my second install of etch because I had
installed LVM the first time but could not find a good Howto on how to set it
up and use it. While LVM was installed I had the same problem not being able
to mount and get to my second hard drive(hdb1).
Not knowing anything about LVM I tried to edit the fstab but it (LVM) would
change all my edits right back to what they were when I closed the file.(I'M
assuming LVM was the culprit.)
Then I re-installed to both drives without LVM and I still cannot mount to the
other drive from the one I'm on.
Before etch,I used both drives with these dists Ubuntu,Kbuntu and SimpleMempis
installed without this mounting problem.
BTW, in a little over a week I Googled up hundreds of these boot hangs:
"Cannot execute "/sbin/getty""
But not one was related to editing the fstab. I did find a lot that blamed it
on bugs in the distro.
I have to leave this now, I got other task I have to go take care of then I
check back in. I want to "Thank you in advance" for taking a look at this.
I do need help as you can see!
