Vilmos,

Thank you for your in-depth explanation... I'll try my best but hitting
'I' is not easy because the system does not pause sufficiently to catch
the moment... until it runs away.

Tim


Vilmos Soti wrote:
> Tim <tlv@k-twelve-.hopkins.mn.us> writes:
>
>
>>Hello,
>
>
> Hello.
>
>
>>When I boot into linux, after much of OKs and some hesitation after
>>"Entering non-interactive startup | Checking for new hardware" it
>>hangs forever at "Updating /etc/fstab".
>
>
> When you next reboot your box, and it says
> "Press 'I' to enter interactive startup.", then hit I. Then it will
> load some things anyway, but it will ask if some services should be
> started. When it says something about "kudzu", then hit n, and then
> hit y again until boot finishes.
>
>
>>There might be some non-compatible (?) hardware like Adaptec AIC-7850
>>PCI SCSI Controller.
>
>
> Here is the info from updfstab(8) which actually causes this hanging.
>
> updfstab is designed to keep /etc/fstab consistent with the devices
> plugged into your system. It looks for devices such as cdroms, zip and
> jaz drives, ls120 drives, and digital cameras on the SCSI and IDE
> buses. USB devices look like SCSI devices to user space, so those are
> supported as well, but are only added if they are currently attached to
> the system (having a scsi device assigned to them is not sufficient).
>
> Vilmos