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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