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

[Jim Cornette]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 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
> 
> 


Thanks!

I'll set it to 0 0 and see if it works through /etc/fstab, without 
listing the disk check, at boot.

edited fstab, removed from rc.local ... rebooting!!!!

Jim