How to get a USB hard disk to mount on boot

[Villalovos, John L]

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?

Thanks,
John