I have a bunch of disks connected to my server, a couple of them are external. After a power outage the external disks won't turn back on automatically and this causes linux not to boot because it can't mount the disks. Does anyone know a way to have linux boot anyway? The disks are configured to be mounted in /etc/fstab so I assume there's an option in there to have it skip errors or something.
You can use the noauto option in the fstab.
EDIT: do you have the nofail option enabled?
Not unless it's part of the default options. But noauto will work, I can just mount the disks with a cron job instead. Although the nobootwait option looks like it might do the trick.
Yep, both noauto and nobootwait will work. Also do keep in mind that with nobootwait, it will still do a filecheck in the background. And if there are services that depends on those drives, they might fail.
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