How to get a USB hard disk to mount on boot
Bob Chiodini
chiodr at kscems.ksc.nasa.gov
Thu Jan 29 19:26:06 UTC 2004
On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 14:06, Villalovos, John L wrote:
> I've been looking through the email list and I haven't found this out
> yet :(
>
> I have a USB Hard disk and it works great. I can mount it easily once
> everything is booted up.
>
> The problem is that if I put it in /etc/fstab to be mounted on boot up
> the usb modules are not yet loaded into the kernel. So there is no
> /dev/sda1 available.
>
> So I am assuming that I need to get usb-storage to be insmod or
> modprobe
> in before the "Mounting local filesystems" part runs.
>
> Can anyone give me a clue on how to do this?
John,
One way, build the appropriate modules into the initrd.
Bob...
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