Re: Cannot boot after adding external USB drive

From: Amnon Feiner (none_at_none.com)
Date: 10/17/05 

Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 19:18:32 GMT

houghi wrote:

> Amnon Feiner wrote:
>> Hey all
>> Just added an external USB drive for backup purposes. I used Partitioned
>> to create the partition and used /backup as the mount point. When trying
>> to reboot the system in order to check if I did it correctly, I get the
>> following message:
>> sack failed for at least one filesystem (not /)
>> Please repair manual and reboot.
>> .....
>> When I go to yast > partitioner, I do not even see the new /dev/sda1 in
>> the list.
>> What am I doing wrong?
>
> You made a mistake in /etc/fstab
> It could be that it tries to mount the usb device before the usb stuff
> is loaded. You could just try a softlink from /backup to /media/usbdisk
> or whatever it gives when you plug in the device.
>
> You could probably change some settings somewhere so it will mount as
> /backup instead as /media/usbdisk, but the easiest way is just to use
> /media/usbdisk or to softlink to it. (At least that is how I would do
> it)
Thanks! worked like a charm (but you already know that. I created a link to
the /media/usbdisk, and it works, however it seems that it always takes few
seconds to respond. Is that normal? 

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