[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#386006: Cannot mount -o auto USB filesystems from /etc/fstab

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

I'm not quite sure what your problem is, but I'll try to recap it as I
understand it.  You have a system with USB, and an external USB disk
connected all the time which you want to have mounted when you boot.
Your USB sybsystem is activated by the hotplug init.d script, and this
script runs after the mountall.sh script, and is thus running to late
for mountall.sh to be able to mount the file system.  Is this correct?

If this is the case, I would suspect your problem is with the hotplug
package, it having placed its startup script too late in the boot
sequence.  I also suspect your problem is solved in Debian/unstable
and Debian/testing, as most systems there uses udev, and udev loads
the USB subsystem a lot earlier in the boot process, thus making sure
USB disks are available before mountall.sh.

Can you verify that this is the case or not?  The hotplug system is
being removed from debian, so I am not sure if it is useful to
reassign this bug to that package.  But I am equally sure that this
bug can't be fixed by the initscripts package, if the problem is that
the init.d scripts loading kernel modules are running too late.

Friendly,
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Petter Reinholdtsen