USB 2.0 IDE drives - dropped to shell when in fstab ... rc.local OK

[Bill Nottingham]

Jim Cornette (jim-cornette at columbus.rr.com) said: 
> I bought an USB Interface Book drive to use a 2.5" IDE drive from my 
> older laptop in. The model of the book drive is ST-2211B2.
> My computer is an HP ze4315us.
> 
> I tried to add the drive to the fstab file and upon reboot, it dropped 
> me to the "Enter root password, to fix problem" shell.

fsck checks files in /etc/fstab. It runs before usb-storage
is loaded -> can't find the drive/filesystem -> error.

In short, don't set it to be checked on boot.

Bill