When I plug the HD into the server, a directory named the same as the name that I gave the HD when I formatted it appears in /media/. After seeing that several months ago, I assumed that the OS has mounted it up automatically and that I was ready to do. So, I set a cron job to automatically back up to that each night. Well, sadly, I just discovered that the HD has not been mounted this entire time. Apparently, it created that directory but never mounted the external drive. This evening, I typed "mount <drive name>" and it said that it mounted it. I am fairly confident that it is mounted now. Is this the proper method? Do you also have to mount manually? Should FC3 mount automatically? Will it remount it on a reboot?
Now, the big issue. When the system tries to boot, it hangs if this external drive is attached because it tries to boot from it. I checked in bios and didn't see anything about external drives in the boot order. I think that it might be considering it a floppy drive, which seems strange since it's connected via USB. Anyone have any idea how I can tell the computer to ignore it in regards to anything boot related?
Wade Preston Shearer
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