The disk drive for /media/sda2 is not ready yet or not present

[BLTicklemonster]

I have three hard drives.

sda has 5 partitions, / and four others and of course swap.
sdb has one partition and swap.
sdc has one partition and swap.

/ and sdb1 and sdc1 come up just fine, but none of the 4 partitions on sda will come up at all. They all get the error message we are talking about here.

I've tried everything here, but nothing appears to get them to all mount when I start my computer. I have to open nautilus and mount them manually.

I've even tried pysdm to get them to mount on boot, but it doesn't work either.

So at least one partition per drive will mount on boot.

I wonder if this is significant?

(now if I can get them to mount when I boot, I just hope I can find a way to get the shared folders on each partition to be shared when I boot, too)

[gwoodruff]

Can you post the output of the following commands from the terminal?

sudo blkid /dev/sd??

sudo fdisk -l

cat /etc/fstab

With a little more info we may be able to help.

Thanks, Gary

[BLTicklemonster]

It got it to stop somehow.

Here's my fstab, everything done manually, mkdir, mount, you name it.

# <file system>                            <mount point>   <type>    <options>            <dump>  <pass>
proc                                       /proc           proc      nodev,noexec,nosuid  0  0  
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=0064ed53-ee8b-4d16-aaba-17829b442149  /            reiserfs  notail                  0  1  
# swap was on /dev/sda3 during installation
UUID=edc3d64f-31c5-4ef3-8beb-5e6eabe018b7  none            swap      sw                   0  0  

/dev/sda2                                  /media/sda2     reiserfs  defaults             0  0
/dev/sda5                                  /media/sda5     reiserfs  defaults             0  0  
/dev/sda6                                  /media/sda6     reiserfs  defaults             0  0  
/dev/sda7                                  /media/sda7     ntfs      defaults             0  0  
/dev/sda8                                  /media/sda8     reiserfs  defaults             0  0  
/dev/sdb1                                  /media/sdb1     reiserfs  defaults             0  0  
/dev/sdc1                                  /media/sdc1     reiserfs  defaults             0  0

I get no error now, and when I boot up, every drive is sitting mounted on my desktop.

And I don't know if it made any difference, but I listed all the drives/partitions in order.

[Glix]

I have the same problem, upgraded ubuntu last night from maverick, but if I try to skip, it changes to:
The disk drive for /tmp is not ready yet or not present
and if I skip that I get:
mountall: Plymouth command failedj
mountall: Disconnected from Plymouth

So I'm confused as to how I'm supposed to get to a place where I can run terminal.

[opodaniel]

this is strange for me too
I try on linux Mint 11 monunting ntfs partition using fstab
If I use UUID obtained from blkid I can't mount it , it at start that partition is not ready and to chose S or M
I I use /dev/sda5 is working
Strange....

[mpbinil]

Dont worry, there is a simple method

use ntfs configuration tool,download from software centre, only few KBs
it works

[mpbinil]

i have another solution for u guys,use ntfs configuration tool, download from software centre ,only few kbs ,

it works,it tells u sda2 is unmounted and it will do everything click ok,

but it change properties of all drives to read only,change it back to read and write

[algent]

I had the same issue but I'm pretty sure it was related to a USB external HDD that was plugged in.

I was getting the message

The drive for /media/sdb1 is not ready or not present.

I followed the instructions provided on neophyteman's page linked above and fixed the issue.

I did not entirely follow the procedure and ended up simply removing the line with /media/sdb1 in my fstab file.

So to summarize for my problem:

gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

located the line that was similar to something like and simply deleted it.

Reboot the machine and it was solved.

I took the risk of deleting the line as I was sure it was not one of the partition on which the machine would boot. If it would have been a /sda I do not think I would have removed the line.

Anyway this was just to add a bit more of documentation on this problem

PS: I'm also dual booting W7/Ubuntu 10.04

Thank you chouf i followed your instructions and solved my problem.

i found something like this

UUID=9F5A-A32A         /windows     vfat  utf8,umask=007,gid=46     0  1

and simply deleted it.

The problem was created because, i have dual boot system XP SP3/Ubuntu 12.04. When I installed ubuntu i formated that partition in FAT32 and mounted /windows. Then I booted Windows and formated the partition with NTFS file system.

[algent]

Thanks!

[BLTicklemonster]

Another upgrade last week messed fstab up. Could not attach a usb device (my camera or a thumb drive).
Had to manually edit fstab.

Somebody needs to be aware of this somewhere, I think. This is the kind of stuff that will run new folks off in droves.