updated to 10.04 - mounting problems ext drive and usb

[omegar79]

Please help, I just updated to 10.04 from the previous version and I'm encountering two main problems:

First, on boot, after grub, I get the following message:

"Disk drive for /hdba/sda6 is not ready yet or not present"
"Continue to wait, or press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery"

It won't go past that (I've waited 30 min) If I press S then I get tis other message but it skips after a few seconds:

"Disk drive for /hdba/sda7 is not ready yet or not present"
"Continue to wait, or press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery"

If I press S then I have an ALMOST working system. You see: I have an external USB hard drive, shared between XP and Ubuntu with all my files in it, and it won't mount. It's a simpletech and it was working just before the update and it loads, mounts and unmounts perfectly on windows and on another laptop I've got running crunchbang!. I can see the disk in "Media" but says I have not enough permissions to see its contents.

My fstab file is as follows:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc                                       /proc           proc         defaults                                       0  0
# /dev/hdb6
UUID=c1b3295a-a5c1-4990-acda-2adf5625c62e  /               ext3         defaults,errors=remount-ro,relatime                     0  1
# /dev/hdb7
UUID=c708b529-ea5d-4d76-9dc7-6c204939f184  none            swap         sw                                             0  0
/dev/cdrom                                   /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660  user,noauto                                    0  0
/dev/                                      /media/floppy0  auto         rw,user,noauto                                 0  0
/dev/hdb6                                  /media/hdb6     ext3         defaults,relatime                                       0  0
/dev/hdb7                                  /media/hdb7     swap         defaults                                       0  0
# Generated by Automatix
/dev/sda5   /media/sda5   vfat    iocharset=utf8,umask=000  0    0
/dev/sda1   /media/sda1   ntfs-3g  defaults,locale=en_US.utf8    0    0
## End of Automatix mounted partitions

Yes, those are Automatix lines of code; yes, I've been running the same box this long.

My lsusb is as follows:

Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c040 Logitech, Inc. Corded Tilt-Wheel Mouse
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 4971:ce04 SimpleTech 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

I'm really stumped. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[scradock]

Please help, I just updated to 10.04 from the previous version and I'm encountering two main problems:

First, on boot, after grub, I get the following message:

It won't go past that (I've waited 30 min) If I press S then I get tis other message but it skips after a few seconds:

If I press S then I have an ALMOST working system. You see: I have an external USB hard drive, shared between XP and Ubuntu with all my files in it, and it won't mount. It's a simpletech and it was working just before the update and it loads, mounts and unmounts perfectly on windows and on another laptop I've got running crunchbang!. I can see the disk in "Media" but says I have not enough permissions to see its contents.

My fstab file is as follows:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc                                       /proc           proc         defaults                                       0  0
# /dev/hdb6
UUID=c1b3295a-a5c1-4990-acda-2adf5625c62e  /               ext3         defaults,errors=remount-ro,relatime                     0  1
# /dev/hdb7
UUID=c708b529-ea5d-4d76-9dc7-6c204939f184  none            swap         sw                                             0  0
/dev/cdrom                                   /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660  user,noauto                                    0  0
/dev/                                      /media/floppy0  auto         rw,user,noauto                                 0  0
/dev/hdb6                                  /media/hdb6     ext3         defaults,relatime                                       0  0
/dev/hdb7                                  /media/hdb7     swap         defaults                                       0  0
# Generated by Automatix
/dev/sda5   /media/sda5   vfat    iocharset=utf8,umask=000  0    0
/dev/sda1   /media/sda1   ntfs-3g  defaults,locale=en_US.utf8    0    0
## End of Automatix mounted partitions

Yes, those are Automatix lines of code; yes, I've been running the same box this long.

My lsusb is as follows:

Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c040 Logitech, Inc. Corded Tilt-Wheel Mouse
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 4971:ce04 SimpleTech 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

I'm really stumped. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Could I suggest unplugging the USB drive and making sure you can boot the new system? Then you could plug it in and investigate how you need to modify fstab (if at all) to get it to respond to "sudo mount -a" correctly.

Once you have that sorted out try re-booting with it plugged in.....

[omegar79]

Been there, done that. These are two separate problems. sda6 is my ext file disc; my usb disk is not a system disc. Both problems persist through plugging and unplugging.

[ram130]

I'm stumped too. I only have this desktop that my mom uses. It's gonna suck when she see this in the morning and have to press S. I only have one hard drive in this system and did an upgrade from karmic few hours ago. Here's my fstab:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda3 during installation
UUID=8e7cae7b-970b-4f7e-8d8c-410f3613877d / ext4 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

[scradock]

Been there, done that. These are two separate problems. sda6 is my ext file disc; my usb disk is not a system disc. Both problems persist through plugging and unplugging.

Well, looking at the fstab, you seem to be trying to mount /dev/hdb6 twice - that might be causing problems. Try commenting out the line "/dev/hdb6 /media/hdb6 ....", and see if the line with the UUID is mounted correctly.

Another possibility is that the Ubuntu partition got re-formatted or otherwise had its UUID changed during the upgrade. If you start up from a LiveCD you could run "sudo blkid" to check you have the correct UUID for each partition.

[omegar79]

I made a mistake transcribing the problem.

It's:

"Disk drive for /media/hda6 is not ready yet or not present"
"Continue to wait, or press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery"

Don't think the drives got repartitioned during upgrade, else I wouldn't have the exact same settings as before the upgrade. Everything is exactly the same, except for this two very annoying errors.

[FishRCynic]

in fstab

try adding

,nobootwait

to the affected drives in fstab

eg (this is an ntfs but the idea is the same)

LABEL=S3A1814D001 /media/S3A1814D001 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_CA.UTF-8,nobootwait 0 0


also uninstall the usbmount package if installed previously - it interferes with lucids usb automounting

[omegar79]

Ok, so here's the deal: Iv've managed to get rid of the S or M phase in the booting prcess eliminating the second booting order using scradocks suggestion, BUT it still haven't found a way to make my USB external disk mount automatically.

I can get it to mount but only through system-admin-disk utility, but still it wont mount automatically (which it used to do) and there's still the duplicate entry on Media that has its properties listed as "ilegible".

Any ideas?

[Burfee]

had the same problem with the USB mounting and FishRCynic's advice helped.

/dev/usbfs /media/usb usbfs devgid=1001,devmode=664,nobootwait 0 0

[Tshann]

in fstab

try adding

,nobootwait

to the affected drives in fstab

eg (this is an ntfs but the idea is the same)

LABEL=S3A1814D001 /media/S3A1814D001 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_CA.UTF-8,nobootwait 0 0


also uninstall the usbmount package if installed previously - it interferes with lucids usb automounting

Hi,
Yep, nobootwait worked for lubuntu 10.04. Thanks!