To answer myself. I hacked the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit file to add a: modprobe usb-storage Before the fsck portion of the script. This seemed to make it work for me. John > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Villalovos, John L > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 11:06 AM > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: How to get a USB hard disk to mount on boot > > > 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 > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
