How to get a USB hard disk to mount on boot

[Villalovos, John L]

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 at redhat.com 
> [mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Villalovos, John L
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 11:06 AM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> 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
> 
> 
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