Fujitsu handydrive booting problem...

[Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 11:45:08PM +0200, Alberto Segura wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I have a  little problem with my Fujitsu Handydrive hard disk (massive 
> storage device connected via USB 2.0). When I boot my pc and this device 
> is running the proccess stops, and I cannot continue until I turn off 
> the handydrive. This device works perfectly on linux and windows if the 
> pc is totally booted. I have this entry in the etc/fstab file :
> 
> /dev/sda1               /mnt/handydrive         vfat   
> noauto,users,exec,gid=my_user,uid=my_user 0 0
> 
> As I said before this device works perfectly on Fedora, but I cannot 
> boot my computer if it is on. Maybe the solution is edit something in my 
> bios but I do not know what. Can anybody help me?

Does the boot process stops after the kernel boots or before?

If before, then I suppose the BIOS is trying to boot from the USB disk. In
which case, you'd go to the BIOS and change the boot order of devices.

Regards,
Luciano Rocha