Should disks in a raid really prevent booting?

[Rick Stevens]

On 03/25/2015 11:05 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 13:24:01 -0400
> Paul Cartwright wrote:
>
>> If there is an entry in /etc/fstab for ANY UUID that it can't find, it
>> won't boot... I have run into that problem MANY times...
>> I have to go in & comment out all entries except / and /home ( assuming
>> it can find them), then it boots..

Even if it's tagged "noauto" in the options field? I haven't tried it
using UUIDs, but LABELs have no issue. To wit, I have these:

# 500GB USB drive via label...
LABEL=500GB-Drive	/media/500GB-Drive	ext4	noauto		0 0
# External ESATA drive
LABEL=500GB-ESATA	/media/500GB-ESATA	ext3	noauto,defaults	0 0

and the system boots just fine if the drives aren't connected. I'll have
to try UUIDs just to see. Dammit, now you've got me curious!
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