Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2460 mails)

[Bob S <911@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 05 July 2008 06:25:31 am Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The Friday 2008-07-04 at 20:50 -0400, Bob S wrote:
> > As you can see in the other response I have recovered the partitions.
> > But, I still have the problem of not being able to boot without the drive
> > being plugged in. I did select the option to NOT mount at boot time, and
> > I did assign Volume labels for each partition. Because of that it made
> > entries in fstab.
> >
> > Can I just delete  those entries from fstab so that it will boot without
> > the drive being plugged in?  The drive works as expected on my 10.0 OS.
> > bringing up the "Device Found" windows which I can open and see.
>
> Instead of delete, just coment them out, ie, write a # as the first char
> of the line. Make sure there are no other lines refering to the same disk
> from the previous install.
>
> However, writing a "noauto" on the options section should be enough. Ah,
> you need a "0 0" at the end, too. Or perhpas it is "nofail", I haven't
> tested this.
Again, thanks to all who responded.

I tried the "noauto" option with the "0 0' aat the end as suggested by several 
respondents. Didn't work. I then commented out the entries in the fstab and 
all is well again. Thanks Carlos.

Now I have a couple more rsync questions. (new thread)

Bob S
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