Lisi wrote:
> The aim: mount one of 2 DVD ROM drives at boot up.
Have you though about using the automounter instead, it will mount your
DVD on demand and unmount if not in use after a set amount of time.
http://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/autofs is the link to the debian
package you can source documentation from here.
> *I duly edited /etc/fstab, changing the following line
> /dev/cdrom1 /media/cdrom udf,iso9660 defaults,user,noauto,ro
> 0
> 0
>
> to
> /dev/cdrom1 /media/cdrom udf,iso9660 defaults,users,auto,ro
> 0
> 0
>
> I thne rebooted and all was well - the DVD ROM drive was mounted at boot
> up.
>
> I rebooted again - and the DVD ROM drive was unmounted and the fstab back
> to
> what it had been in the first place.*
> That appeared to have worked. It survived 4 or 5 reboots - but has now
> gone
> back to what it was in the first place.
>
> I am at a total loss. Both systems are running the same distro (Libranet
> 3
> updated and upgraded with Sarge). I had no trouble on Tux. Why is Dozy
> being so troublesome? And what do I do to solve the problem?
There may be a service or some module configuration running on boot that
is re-writing your fstab file - it is not usual to mount, but perfectly
possible, a DVD disk on boot. Try another DVD. DVD's, as you know, can
have latency or lag before the data is read into system memory, this delay
may be the cause of the problem.
Hope this helps
Damian B
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