Booting with external HD missing - WAS:Booting into emergency mode - Help! -SOLVED

[Ahmad Samir]

On 23 March 2014 21:39, lee <lee at yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:

> Arthur Dent <misc.lists at blueyonder.co.uk> writes:
>
> > On Sun, 2014-03-23 at 16:20 +0100, Patrick Laimbock wrote:
> >> On 23-03-14 16:08, Arthur Dent wrote:
> >> [snip]
> >> > Sorry for the noise. I guess I should open another thread, but does
> >> > anyone know how to auto-mount an external HD ONLY if it's present?
> >>
> >> Have a look at the 'nofail' option (see man fstab). Or add the 'noauto'
> >> option to the fstab entry for that HD and try to mount the HD in
> >> /etc/rc.local only if it's present.
> >
> > Thanks - I tried the nofail option. This is the line I have now:
> > UUID=BCD0A565D0A5269C                          /mnt/Backup     ntfs-3g
> nofail,auto,noatime,rw, 0 0
> > but trying a mount -a with the drive NOT present gives me:
> > mount: /mnt/Backup: mount failed: Invalid argument
> > (I haven't tried rebooting yet).
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> One of the arguments is missing and thus considered as invalid?
>
> You might make a bug report because this error message is misleading.
>
>
You're right, I missed it before. There's an extra "," after rw in the
mount options.



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Ahmad Samir
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