Nesaskewatch
February 2nd, 2013, 06:49 PM
Somehow and in spite of myself, I managed to install Ubuntu on an Asus N56VJ with UEFI. That successful campaign is chronicled here (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2105622). While doing it I decided instead of moving the windows D:\ (Data) partition -- which was left by windows partition manager smack in the middle of the drive -- I would use the unallocated space in front of it as a /share partition, formatted in NTFS for sharing files between operating systems. That went fine, but ocasionally when I boot it freezes just before the splash screen. When it does not freeze it stops during the splash screen saying something like "/share failed to mount. Press S to skip, M for manual recovery" etc. I press S as I do not want share to mount and it boots fine.
I decided that the next time it froze I would try pressing S and, what do you know, it worked. My question is; how do I prevent that drive from mounting at boot, and why is it trying to mount in the first place? I didn't give it a mount point, at least I don't think I did. Though I did label it /share... Anyway, here is a pic of my drive in gparted. SDA7 is the miscreant volume
http://i.imgur.com/a50UI4Z.png?1
Thanks in advance for any replies.
I decided that the next time it froze I would try pressing S and, what do you know, it worked. My question is; how do I prevent that drive from mounting at boot, and why is it trying to mount in the first place? I didn't give it a mount point, at least I don't think I did. Though I did label it /share... Anyway, here is a pic of my drive in gparted. SDA7 is the miscreant volume
http://i.imgur.com/a50UI4Z.png?1
Thanks in advance for any replies.