[mdlug] need fstab and/or openGL help

[Rick Renshaw]

--- Raymond McLaughlin <driveray at ameritech.net> wrote:

> 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
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It is possible, if /home/wolfger does exist on the root drive that the partitions mounted
correctly.  Then when you mount /dev/hda3 over top /home, they are no longer accessible until you
umount /home.  I've done that before with Digital UNIX.




       
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