Bug#580214: linux-image-2.6.32-5: cannot mount (or fsck) a usb disk at boot time

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi Alan,

Alan Braslau wrote:

> A second hard disk is installed on my computer as an external usb device.
> Since the last kernel update (either using an official debian kernel-image
> or a locally compiled kernel from debian sources), mounting of this disk
> at boot time fails. (If /etc/fdisk indicates an fsck pass 2, this fails
> as well, putting the system into single-user mode.)
[...]
> Once the system is booted, mounting of the disk works fine.

Sorry for the slow response.  What version of initramfs-tools do you use?
If you can still reproduce this, please attach output from

	/usr/share/bug/initramfs-tools/script 3>&1

Thanks,
Jonathan