[Bug 367782] Re: External USB Hard Drive fails to mount on boot from fstab

[Sam Geeraerts]

Instead of hacking /usr/share/initramfs-tools/init, it's more elegant
and robust to add the delay as a rootdelay boot parameter. E.g. edit
/etc/default/grub as follows:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet rootdelay=10"

and run 'sudo update-grub'.

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Title:
  External USB Hard Drive fails to mount on boot from fstab

Status in “util-linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  When an external USB HD is entered into fstab it fails to mount at
  startup with the following error message.

  "Mounting local filesystems...
  mount: special device /dev/sdb1 does not exist."

  I get the same error if using the UUID instead of /dev/sdb1in the
  fstab

  In any case the drive mounts correctly with mount -a once the machine
  has booted.

  I believe this behaviour started after a recent 8.10 update because it
  used to work fine.  The problem persists after upgrading to 9.04

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