/home partition will not mount at boot despite fstab settings
Hi all,
I just recompiled my kernel from 2.4.26 to 2.6.10. A big problem I am having is that my /home directory on its own partition does not get mounted at boot time. My fstab file for that partition is set to the default so it should. Where do I go from here to fix this? This is my /etc/fstab file. The only other thing I can imagine is that it does get mounted, but then some blank home directory gets mounted on top of that, but I assumed I would get an error that something is already mounted there. All I know is it worked in 2.4.26 and not now, so any help would be appreciated. Other than that, the new kernel is working great! /dev/hdc3 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdc5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hdc2 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc1 /windowsxp vfat users 1 0 /dev/hdc7 /fat-d vfat defaults 1 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 |
if you look in /etc/mtab then it shows what is currently mounted, in case it is mounted but you can't see it, as you suggest.
Have you checked the output in dmesg and the logs? Can you mount it manually? hamish |
>if you look in /etc/mtab then it shows what is currently mounted, in case it is mounted but you can't see it, as you suggest.
Nope, it's not mounted, just / and /procfs (I believe, going on memory) >Have you checked the output in dmesg and the logs? Haven't checked dmesg or the logs for this particular issue. I was perusing them for some other stuff related to my kernel upgrade, but I didn't notice anything related to hd6 or /home. I will check again when I get home. >Can you mount it manually? Yep, I can totally mount it. I first tried to login as a normal user and it said that home directory didn't exist, so I logged in as root, freaked out b/c the /home directory was empty, then mounted the partition and it was all there. So, as far as I can tell, it's not getting mounted depsite the "defaults" entry in fstab or it is getting mounted then unmounted. Totally at a loss. Zach |
Did you enable udev/hotplug, disable rc.devfsd (if you have it), have a /sys dir ?
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From /var/log/messages (hdc6 is my /home partition, hdc5 is my / partition) ------------- root@andromeda:/etc/rc.d# tail -n -600 /var/log/messages | grep hdc6 Mar 7 08:54:20 andromeda kernel: hdc: [PTBL] [9726/255/63] hdc1 hdc2 hdc3 hdc4 < hdc5 hdc6 hdc7 > Mar 8 19:23:35 andromeda kernel: hdc: hdc1 hdc2 hdc3 hdc4 < hdc5 hdc6 hdc7 > No mention of adding anything on hdc6 ------------- root@andromeda:/etc/rc.d# tail -n -600 /var/log/messages | grep hdc5 Mar 7 08:54:20 andromeda kernel: hdc: [PTBL] [9726/255/63] hdc1 hdc2 hdc3 hdc4 < hdc5 hdc6 hdc7 > Mar 8 19:23:35 andromeda kernel: hdc: hdc1 hdc2 hdc3 hdc4 < hdc5 hdc6 hdc7 > Mar 8 19:23:35 andromeda kernel: EXT3 FS on hdc5, internal journal ------------- Nothing else seems to be showing up in the logs one way or another. As far as my dmesg, here is the contents BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000017ffc000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0000000017ffc000 - 0000000017fff000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 0000000017fff000 - 0000000018000000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 383MB LOWMEM available. On node 0 totalpages: 98300 DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1 Normal zone: 94204 pages, LIFO batch:16 HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1 DMI 2.3 present. ACPI: RSDP (v000 ASUS ) @ 0x000f59c0 ACPI: RSDT (v001 ASUS P3B_F 0x30303031 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x17ffc000 ACPI: FADT (v001 ASUS P3B_F 0x30303031 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x17ffc080 ACPI: BOOT (v001 ASUS P3B_F 0x30303031 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x17ffc040 ACPI: DSDT (v001 ASUS P3B_F 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000b) @ 0x00000000 Built 1 zonelists Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=lin2_6 ro root=1605 pci=routeirq Initializing CPU#0 CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c0482000 soft=c0481000 PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 32768 bytes) Detected 751.857 MHz processor. Using tsc for high-res timesource Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Memory: 385328k/393200k available (2465k kernel code, 7280k reserved, 945k data, 152k init, 0k highmem) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Calibrating delay loop... 1486.84 BogoMIPS (lpj=743424) Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 256K CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000040 Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 03 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0e20) NET: Registered protocol family 16 PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf08b0, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 mtrr: v2.0 (20020519) ACPI: Subsystem revision 20041105 ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *9 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00) PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay pnp: PnP ACPI init pnp: PnP ACPI: found 13 devices SCSI subsystem initialized usbcore: registered new driver usbfs usbcore: registered new driver hub PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing ** Routing PCI interrupts for all devices because "pci=routeirq" ** was specified. If this was required to make a driver work, ** please email the output of "lspci" to bjorn.helgaas@hp.com ** so I can fix the driver. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 9 PCI: setting IRQ 9 as level-triggered ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:04.2[D] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 5 PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 10 PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0b.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0d.0[A] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11 PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0xe400-0xe43f could not be reserved pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0xe800-0xe80f has been reserved Simple Boot Flag at 0x3a set to 0x1 Machine check exception polling timer started. audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) audit(1110309805.474:0): initialized Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de). Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers. ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1 C2) ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 8 throttling states) lp: driver loaded but no devices found serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A parport: PnPBIOS parport detected. parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7 [PCSPP(,...)] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered elevator: using anticipatory as default io scheduler Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 Linux Tulip driver version 1.1.13 (May 11, 2002) ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5 tulip0: MII transceiver #1 config 3000 status 7829 advertising 01e1. eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 32 at 0001b000, 00:A0:CC:5C:C7:28, IRQ 5. Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:04.1 PIIX4: chipset revision 1 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xb800-0xb807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb808-0xb80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio Probing IDE interface ide0... hda: ATAPI 48X CDROM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdb: CD-W512E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Probing IDE interface ide1... hdc: WDC WD800BB-75CAA0, ATA DISK drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 Probing IDE interface ide2... ide2: Wait for ready failed before probe ! Probing IDE interface ide3... ide3: Wait for ready failed before probe ! Probing IDE interface ide4... ide4: Wait for ready failed before probe ! Probing IDE interface ide5... ide5: Wait for ready failed before probe ! hdc: max request size: 128KiB hdc: Host Protected Area detected. current capacity is 156250000 sectors (80000 MB) native capacity is 156250080 sectors (80000 MB) hdc: Host Protected Area disabled. hdc: 156250080 sectors (80000 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(33) hdc: cache flushes not supported hdc: hdc1 hdc2 hdc3 hdc4 < hdc5 hdc6 hdc7 > hda: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 hdb: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2976kB Cache, UDMA(33) libata version 1.10 loaded. ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:04.2[D] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9 uhci_hcd 0000:00:04.2: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB uhci_hcd 0000:00:04.2: irq 9, io base 0xb400 uhci_hcd 0000:00:04.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected usbcore: registered new driver usblp drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. usbcore: registered new driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1 oprofile: using timer interrupt. NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536) ip_conntrack version 2.1 (3071 buckets, 24568 max) - 300 bytes per conntrack ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team ipt_recent v0.3.1: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>. http://snowman.net/projects/ipt_recent/ arp_tables: (C) 2002 David S. Miller NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 ACPI wakeup devices: PCI0 UAR1 UAR2 PS2K PS2M USB0 ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5) EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 152k freed kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds Adding 755044k swap on /dev/hdc3. Priority:-1 extents:1 EXT3 FS on hdc5, internal journal eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII#1 link partner capability of 45e1. ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0b.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones agpgart: Detected an Intel 440BX Chipset. agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 321M agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe4000000 fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel. [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 314 MBytes. ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 [fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 3.11.1 [Aug 4 2004] on minor 0 Fire GL built-in AGP-support Based on agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 321M agpgart: Detected Intel 440BX chipset agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe4000000 Power management callback for AGP chipset installed [fglrx] AGP detected, AgpState = 0x1f000203 (hardware caps of chipset) AGP: Found 2 AGPv2 devices AGP: Doing enable for AGPv2 [fglrx] AGP enabled, AgpCommand = 0x1f000302 (selected caps) [fglrx] free AGP = 54800384 [fglrx] max AGP = 54800384 [fglrx] free LFB = 55574528 [fglrx] max LFB = 55574528 [fglrx] free Inv = 0 [fglrx] max Inv = 0 [fglrx] total Inv = 0 [fglrx] total TIM = 0 [fglrx] total FB = 0 [fglrx] total AGP = 16384 |
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>if you look in /etc/mtab then it shows what is currently mounted, in case it is mounted but you can't see it, as you suggest. Nope, it's not mounted, just / and /procfs (I believe, going on memory) --------- are your vfat -partitions also not mounted ? egag |
Nope, they're not mounted either. Here is my mtab without anything done after logging in as root.
/dev/hdc5 / ext3 rw 0 0 proc /proc proc rw 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0 |
take a look at /etc/rc.d/rc.S. ( the startup script )
from line 242 # mount non-root file systems in fstab (but not NFS or SMB # because TCP/IP is not yet configured, and not proc because # that has already been mounted): /sbin/mount -a -v -t nonfs,nosmbfs,noproc maybe you don't have that, or the "mount " command is not ok.. egag |
This is weird, at least you could add :
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if ! grep /dev/hdc6 /proc/mounts; then |
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root@andromeda:/mnt/cdrom# /sbin/mount -a -v -t nonfs,nosmbfs,noproc Code:
root@andromeda:/mnt/cdrom# cat /etc/mtab |
Maybe try to set last fields of hdc1 and hdc7 lines in fstab to : 0 0
To check if they cause /home not being mounted at boot You may want to check with noauto option as well |
Ok, let's close this one up. The problem is that there was a syntax error in the rc.modules script that I edited for the new kernel. The rc.modules script was exiting and I think everything after that in rc.S was not getting done. Fixed it and now my box almost runs right. Now I can't log into graphical mode unless I'm root, but I'll post that question in another thread. Thanks for the help everyone!
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