I have a problem where the installation of Knoppmyth never completes. I'm not too concerned about that as I can manually fix what didn't get installed, except I'm having one problem.

I may be mistaken, but it seems that the boot loader is not reading /etc/fstab, and the myth partitions are not being mounted. Does Knoppmyth use a different file to do it's bootup mounts?

typing mount in an xterm window gets this:

/dev/hda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)

Inside /etc/fstab are all the mounts for the floppy, cdrom, hda2, hda3, hda4, etc. but they're not being mounted at bootup.

Any ideas?

If it never completes then perhaps something is wrong w/ your burn.... Are you doing a manual install? If so, you'll have to create /cache and /myth yourself.

cesman

The partitions are there. At an xterm prompt I can type:

su
mount /dev/hda3 /cache
mount /dev/hda4 /myth
exit

and everything is fine.

It simply seems that /etc/fstab is not being read on bootup. Is there a different file instead of fstab that gets read at bootup? If not, any idea why /etc/fstab is not being read?

No. If the install wasn't complete this could be why it isn't being read.

cesman

If you have an install and it just isn't mounting partitions that
are present in fstab and you want them automatically mounted:
edit /etc/fstab and be sure the options for that entry contain
auto.

For example I might have an entry like this
/dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
This can be changed to be automatically mount at boot by
removing the no from the options sections and end up
like this:
/dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 ext3 auto,users,exec 0 0

Thanks for the tip!

It's my lack of understanding of Linux that usually gets me into trouble!

I added the "auto" to the mounts and that part works fine now.

On to the next problem... mythbackend is complaining that it's failing to bind to port 6543, whatever that means!! The search continues...

Thanks again!