I'm not quite sure what your problem is, but I'll try to recap it as I understand it. You have a system with USB, and an external USB disk connected all the time which you want to have mounted when you boot. Your USB sybsystem is activated by the hotplug init.d script, and this script runs after the mountall.sh script, and is thus running to late for mountall.sh to be able to mount the file system. Is this correct?
If this is the case, I would suspect your problem is with the hotplug package, it having placed its startup script too late in the boot sequence. I also suspect your problem is solved in Debian/unstable and Debian/testing, as most systems there uses udev, and udev loads the USB subsystem a lot earlier in the boot process, thus making sure USB disks are available before mountall.sh. Can you verify that this is the case or not? The hotplug system is being removed from debian, so I am not sure if it is useful to reassign this bug to that package. But I am equally sure that this bug can't be fixed by the initscripts package, if the problem is that the init.d scripts loading kernel modules are running too late. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]