[PROBLEM] /boot is not mounted automatically

[jakenl]

(10th Aug, 2019 08:04 AM)Nachteule Wrote:  To your first issue:

The entry seems to be garbaged:

Quote:UUID=4D28-F2B5 /boot xbian xbian noatime,rw,private 0 1

Please remove the 2nd "xbian " from /etc/fstab

Yes, this fixed it!

(10th Aug, 2019 08:07 PM)Nachteule Wrote:  To your second minor issue:

i don't know what you want to achieve with the kernel parameter 'boot_delay=5', if I look into the kernel parameter documentation,

Code:

boot_delay=     Milliseconds to delay each printk during boot.
                        Values larger than 10 seconds (10000) are changed to
                        no delay (0).
                        Format: integer

this parameter really doesn't make any sense to me

This delay is used to let HDD's spin up and also gives some time for USB drives to initialise.
I was not sure what was meant with the milliseconds, I checked multiple sites and I finally interpreted it as seconds. Anyway, I removed it now altogether.

Quote:If Kodi is working correctly despite the error message, you can safely ignore it, if not, you could use the user-run.sh script to explicitly wait until the media is mounted

See file /etc/default/xbmc and template of user-run.sh script is in /usr/local/share/doc/xbmc/user-run.sh

For example, this script could look like this:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

echo "-----------------------------------"
echo "$(date) $0 $@"
echo "-----------------------------------"

case $1 in

        preload)                # Invoked by /etc/init/xbmc-preload.conf
                case $2 in
                        start)
                                for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10; do
                                        if mountpoint -q /media/64GB_ULTRAF/; then
                                                break
                                        fi
                                        sleep 1
                                done
                                ;;
                        stop)
                                # This should never happen
                                ;;
                esac
                ;;

        xbmc)                   # Invoked by /etc/init/xbmc.conf
                case $2 in
                        start)
                                ;;
                        stop)
                                ;;
                esac
                ;;
                
        screensaver)            # Invoked by /etc/init/xbmc-screensaver.conf
                case $2 in
                        start)
                                ;;
                        stop)
                                ;;
                esac
                ;;

esac

exit 0

I checked out both files and I see what it does. However, since it doesn't cause an issue (besides a long log file) I decided not to go for this 'hard coded' solution. Over time I will forget about this trick and when I change USB-sticks, I won't remember this anymore. Thanks for showing this approach!