Automount writes to which file

[Guest_imported]

I believe that the fat disks on my system makes me unable to boot (stops loading at "checking filesystems" does _not_ freeze, however does stop responding).

where do i edit this to "do not mount at boot"?

this does only happend to RedHat 7.2 with kernel 2.4.x! not 6.2 with 2.2.14!

have reinstalled 7.2 once already.

 

[bubak]

the file for you is
/etc/fstab

bubak

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

To prevent filesystems listed in /etc/fstab being mounted at boot time you need to add the parameter 'noauto' to the fourth field. For example you might have a line like this:


/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 vfat user,exec,dev,suid,ro,noauto 0 0

Maybe you don't have the '0 0' at the end either.

You probably just need to boot in single user mode and fix /etc/fstab or maybe run 'fsck' on your other partitions. Booting in single user mode from grub is explained here -->

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/ref-guide/s1-init-boot-shutdown-init.html

Hope this helps

 

[Guest_imported]

thanks a lot, both of you. i wrote to the fstab file, and have not yet worked on mounting them again, but the system is working.

does kernel 2.4.7-10 have some sort of error regarding fat?