Hello there,

On a my brand new Slack 11 (home made kernel 2.6.17.13) i see shortly
(to short so i have no time to read anything else) at startup a error
message about mounting something.

Here is my fstab :

> /dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
> /dev/sda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> /dev/sda3 /dosc ntfs defaults,ro 1 0
> /dev/sda4 /dosd vfat defaults,rw,umask=000 1 0
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,owner,ro 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,noauto,owner 0 0
> devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd auto user,noauto,defaults 0 0
> /dev/sdb /mnt/memstick vfat user,noauto,defaults,umask=000 0 0

Everything works correctly and there no similar message in syslog,
messages and dmesg give nothing....

I like my Linux boot without error so every help will be appreciated.

Many thanks.

Philippe

Wawa.voum wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> On a my brand new Slack 11 (home made kernel 2.6.17.13) i see shortly
> (to short so i have no time to read anything else) at startup a error
> message about mounting something.
>
> Here is my fstab :
>
> > /dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
> > /dev/sda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> > /dev/sda3 /dosc ntfs defaults,ro 1 0
> > /dev/sda4 /dosd vfat defaults,rw,umask=000 1 0
> > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,owner,ro 0 0
> > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,noauto,owner 0 0
> > devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> > /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd auto user,noauto,defaults 0 0
> > /dev/sdb /mnt/memstick vfat user,noauto,defaults,umask=000 0 0
>
> Everything works correctly and there no similar message in syslog,
> messages and dmesg give nothing....
>
> I like my Linux boot without error so every help will be appreciated.
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Philippe

It would probably help if you gave us the error message you're
receiving.

Thanks

Mike

On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:39:34 +0200
"Wawa.voum" <"pas.de@spams.ici.fr"> wrote:

> Hello there,
>
> On a my brand new Slack 11 (home made kernel 2.6.17.13) i see shortly
> (to short so i have no time to read anything else) at startup a error
> message about mounting something.

This can be a message concerning FAT. Forget about it or disable FAT
in your custom kernel.

--mikhail

On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:51:01 +0400, Mikhail Zotov <invalid_muxaul@lenta.ru> wrote:

>On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:39:34 +0200
>"Wawa.voum" <"pas.de@spams.ici.fr"> wrote:
>
>> Hello there,
>>
>> On a my brand new Slack 11 (home made kernel 2.6.17.13) i see shortly
>> (to short so i have no time to read anything else) at startup a error
>> message about mounting something.
>
>This can be a message concerning FAT. Forget about it or disable FAT
>in your custom kernel.

Make FAT FS support modular, only compile in the filesystems required
for booting. All compiled in HDD formats are probed for at boot.

Grant.
--
http://bugsplatter.mine.nu/

Wawa.voum wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> On a my brand new Slack 11 (home made kernel 2.6.17.13) i see shortly
> (to short so i have no time to read anything else) at startup a error
> message about mounting something.
>
> Here is my fstab :
>
>> /dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
>> /dev/sda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
>> /dev/sda3 /dosc ntfs defaults,ro 1 0
>> /dev/sda4 /dosd vfat
>> defaults,rw,umask=000 1 0
>> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,owner,ro 0 0
>> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,noauto,owner 0 0
>> devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
>> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
>> /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd auto user,noauto,defaults 0 0
>> /dev/sdb /mnt/memstick vfat
>> user,noauto,defaults,umask=000 0 0
>
>
> Everything works correctly and there no similar message in syslog,
> messages and dmesg give nothing....
>
> I like my Linux boot without error so every help will be appreciated.

Boot your system in tekst mode.
If you normaly start in graphical mode you can type somthing like
"Linux 1" at the Lilo prompt. The "1" is to select runlevel 1
(single user mode). If you normaly boot in runlevel 3 (multi user,
without X) you don't have to do anythin special.

In the text console you can use <shift> <PgUP> and <shift> <PgDn>
to scroll the text on your screen.

--
Kees Theunissen.

"Wawa.voum" <"pas.de@spams.ici.fr"> writes:
> (to short so i have no time to read anything else) at startup a error
> message about mounting something.
> Here is my fstab :
> > /dev/sdb /mnt/memstick vfat user,noauto,defaults,umask=000 0 0

Most likely it's complaining that you're trying to mount the raw
disk instead of the partition assuming of course that the USB driver
modules( or in the kernel) are working properly at that stage of the
bootup.

try: /dev/sdb1
and see what you get.

Jack
--
Once, they feared you. Then they matched you. Now they are laughing
at you. Soon they will ignore you. You have lost.

On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:52:01 +0200,
Kees Theunissen <theuniss@rijnh.nl> wrote:

> In the text console you can use <shift> <PgUP> and <shift>
> <PgDn> to scroll the text on your screen.

A little trick I've used to capture fleeting error messages during
POST (when no scrollback buffer is available), is to point a
digital camera at the screen and snap a shot at the right time.

--
Theodore (Ted) Heise <theo@heise.nu> Bloomington, IN, USA

On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 11:45:41 -0500, Theodore Heise wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:52:01 +0200,
> Kees Theunissen <theuniss@rijnh.nl> wrote:
>
>> In the text console you can use <shift> <PgUP> and <shift>
>> <PgDn> to scroll the text on your screen.
>
> A little trick I've used to capture fleeting error messages during
> POST (when no scrollback buffer is available), is to point a
> digital camera at the screen and snap a shot at the right time.


While wrestling with configuration on a new install, I've sometimes
been known to put stuff like:
#
echo -n "running <whatever daemon> - press enter... "
read junk
#
in various places in my config scripts, so they will pause and I
can see what's going on.

Cheers!
Rich