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Author: Dr. Nikolaus Klepp
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab
Anno domini 2020 Sun, 14 Jun 13:03:13 +0200
J. Fahrner via Dng scripsit:
> Am 2020-06-14 10:11, schrieb richard lucassen:
> > Did you format the disk with a newer system than the system you run it
> > on? So, I wonder what happens if you remove the huge_file option
>
> I don't remember on which system I formatted that drive.
> After playing around the problem is very strange. It's not the
> huge_files option.
>
> With the "nofail" option in fstab the boot does not hang and I can
> experiment a little bit.
>
> I made a init script "mounthdd" which mounts the drive if it is not
> already mounted, and execute it at several stages. Sometimes the mount
> is successful, sometimes not. If I mount the drive interactively with
> "sudo mount /hdd" I have 100% success. But if it's executed in
> background, it mostly fails.
>
> Next I wrote a little script "wait4hdd"
>
> #!/bin/sh
> while ! mountpoint -q /hdd
> do
>    sleep 10
> done

>
> and inserted it in the init scripts for daemons that need the disk.
> Result: they are waiting endless.
>
> Next I added a cronjob for root:
> */10 * * * * mountpoint -q /hdd || mount /hdd
>
> That tries to mount the drive every 10 minutes if not already mounted.
> No success.
>
> But if I do it interactively with "sudo mount /hdd" the drive gets
> mounted and the waiting daemons are started.
>
> I'm very confused...
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Are you 100% absolutely sure your board is not stuck at the bootloader stage before the kernel is started?


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