Re: Detached device and boot auto mount

["Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 09:20:29AM +0200, Tero M?ntyvaara wrote:
> Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> >On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 05:34:55PM +0200, Tero M?ntyvaara wrote:
> >  
> >>I have added a IDE/PATA swap rack mount into /etc/fstab. Every time I 
> >>boot and there is no device in the rack, boot stops (asks to press 
> >>Ctrl+D or something) after automount detects that there is no hd in 
> >>rack. Is there a way to prevent this stop?.
> >  
> I should have used different words...  :-[ I didn't mean swap partition, 
> but I meant removable hd case. :-\

Give us your /etc/fstab and a 

dmesg | grep -i hd 

for both a system with and without the rack drives installed.

Is the problem a device-node renaming, solveable by using UUID or
LABELs?

What do _you_ mean by automount?

Doug.