I've been looking through the email list and I haven't found this out yet :( I have a USB Hard disk and it works great. I can mount it easily once everything is booted up. The problem is that if I put it in /etc/fstab to be mounted on boot up the usb modules are not yet loaded into the kernel. So there is no /dev/sda1 available. So I am assuming that I need to get usb-storage to be insmod or modprobe in before the "Mounting local filesystems" part runs. Can anyone give me a clue on how to do this? Thanks, John