[mdlug] need fstab and/or openGL help

[Raymond McLaughlin]

Wolfger wrote:
> On 5/11/07, Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org> wrote:
> 
>>> /dev/hdb2 /home/wolfger/torrents ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1
>>> /dev/hdb5 /home/wolfger/Shared ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1
>>> /dev/hda3 /home ext3 defaults,noatime 1 2
>>             ^^^^^^
>>
>> I should have seen this earlier.  The boot mounts the filesystems in the
>> order they're listed in the fstab.  You're mounting /home *after*
>> /home/wolfger/*.  The mount fails because there is no mountpoint when it
>> tries during boot.  Place the mountpoints in the right order, this won't
>> happen.
> 
> Great! I'll try this when I get home, but it sounds like a strong
> possibility. Unfortunately, now I have to retract the statement "I
> wouldn't have come for help if this was an easy problem", because this
> is pretty darned easy.
> 

Agreed! My only half baked excuse is, why didn't "mount point ... does
not exist" errors show up in the log file? I wonder if such an error was
showing up in the verbose chatter on your boot console. Does your distro
give you a nice "don't think, be happy" splash screen during boot? I
always disable it (splash=0 on the kernel line) on my systems. I like to
watch the messages go by. Even if they run too fast to really be read I
still sometimes get a glimpse of something interesting.

Raymond McLaughlin