Re: Need help getting a firewire HD to automount during boot in Suse

[Herbie <technowombat@yahoo.com>]

Well, I can't talk for Suse, but it's all pretty much the same. Init 
scripts live in /etc/init.d and usually have helpful names.

The runlevel init dirs are /etc/rc0.d ---> /etc/rc5.d and have numbered 
symlinks to the init scripts that get run in that level.

Here's a tutorial for you 
http://yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialInitProcess.html

Basically look in /etc/init.d for something called firewire or similar. Or 
even better

grep -il firewire /etc/init.d/

will show you which init scripts have the word firewire in them.

herbie

On Sat, 6 May 2006, Hex Star wrote:

> On 5/6/06, Herbie <technowombat@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Check the order of your init scripts. I'd imagine that the firewire card
>> and attached devices need to be scanned and initialised, and this is
>> likely happening after the system mounts all drives.
>> 
>> I'd set the entry in fstab to noauto and simply add mount /websites to
>> either the end of the firewire init script, or in rc.local (which should
>> be at S99, yes?)
>> 
>> herbie
>> 
>> On Sat, 6 May 2006, Hex Star wrote:
>> 
>> > Hello, I have a HP NetServer LH3R running Suse 10 and I've put in a
>> firewire
>> > PCI card and connected a firewire external HD to that card, linux sees
>> and
>> > can interact with the HD fine but since I'm planning to install cPanel
>> and
>> > would like to use the firewire drive as the clients home folder for
>> added
>> > disk space I need the drive to be automounted during boot, so far I've
>> tried
>> > adding "mount -rw /dev/hdb1 /websites"  (without the quotes of course)
>> to
>> > /etc/rc.d/boot.local but that didn't work so I removed that and then
>> tried
>> > adding "/dev/sdb1 /websites ext3 rw,auto,user,exec 0 0" (without the
>> quotes
>> > of course) to /etc/fstab and now Suse sees the drive and knows the
>> > mountpoint should be /websites but despite auto being in the fstab file
>> it's
>> > not auto mounting during the boot it's still not working :-(...can
>> anyone
>> > please tell me what I'm doing wrong and what I need to do to get this
>> drive
>> > to auto mount during boot? I'm pulling my hair out trying to get this to
>> > work and would greatly appreciate any help you guys can provide me,
>> thanks!
>> > :-)
>> >
>> 
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> Thanks for the reply :-), where in Suse 10 would I find the firewire init
> script?
>

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