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

[Jim Cornette]

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.

After thinking that the problem was on my end, I fscked the three 
partitions aqnd no problem was found. I even tried other measures to see 
if the entries would stop dropping me to the init 1 shell.

I then removed the entries and then rebooted. Everything came up 
alright. Since they worked after the OS loaded and I was logged on. I 
added the entries to the rc.local file and they worked with that method.

My main question is regarding where the entries should be entered? Are 
there any plans to load the USB drivers before the /etc/ftab is read?

I would like USB recognized, sda device recognized, then fstab read. If 
no plans, the files to change the order in would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Jim

-- 
One small step for man, one giant stumble for mankind.

[Jim Cornette]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
>  Jim Cornette (jim-cornette(a)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

USB 2.0 IDE drives -Alright w/o filecheck - Same drive w/ another motherboard

[Jim Cornette]

Jim Cornette wrote:
>  Bill Nottingham wrote: 
> >
> > 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 
Everything works with the settings changed, to 0 0 in /etc/fstab

Another confusing thing happened with the drive though, on another 
machine. This CPU can boot from USB-HDD through BIOS. It is a half-sized 
PCISA3716E2V computer board. (Juki, I believe, with version 1.4 0f the BIOS)

THe old laptop drive would boot through USB-HDD until it got to the part 
that it wanted to locate the root partition. At that time, it halted, 
with a kernel panic.

When I change the BIOS to boot from a standard IDE controller buss and 
tried to detect another similar, but with MS operating system in the 
Book drive, it was not detected by the fully updated RH9 version of the 
operating system.

Severn was not loaded on the hard disk. It wouldn't load on the Toshiba 
490CDT (now W98 w/ a new owner)

Now to my main question. Is Severn updated to deal with USB-HDD drives? 
(compared to RH9)

Do you think that the BIOS Boot treats this unit as hdd-0 and shrike 
does not have the USB loaded, then detects the SCSI or IDE drive?

My main reason for asking is that these CPU boards will soon be seeing 
RHL in the future, as a commercial OS. It would be great to have RHL 
(Whatever version) b able to use the USB-HDD feature to boot from the 
USB drive.

Thanks,

Jim

[Bill Nottingham]

Jim Cornette (jim-cornette(a)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