Re: boot problem

On Thursday 25 June 2009 18:48 David Hendricks wrote:
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:29 AM, <pkaplan1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
pkaplan1@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
In the last few days my system has been hanging during boot.

The only way to continue booting is by hitting ctrl+d. Booting
continues

normally and the

drives are correctly mounted.

I've verified that th UUID identifiers that are listed in /etc/fstab

match those listed in /dev/disk

/by-uuid and are the same four partitions listed above. These
correspond

to /dev/sdb5,

/dev/sdb2, /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb6, respectively.

How can I get this to stop hanging?
Paul

The only time I've seen this problem recently is with trying to
automount a USB hard drive on boot. Where are these partitions
located?

Exactly. All the partitions are on an external USB drive. Strange
thing is that there was no problem in the 2 weeks since I set up the
machine and drive, only in the last few days.
Paul

I've had a number of problems trying to boot from USB devices. Adding
"rootwait" to the kernel command-line options seems to help solve (or at
least workaround) a lot of them. It seems like your root fs is already
found, but I'd advise trying it anyway to see if it makes a difference.

Are you suggesting this even though I am booting from /dev/sda, not the
USB device?
Paul

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