Xbian hangs during boot saying "Switching root"

[Rilhas]

(27th Aug, 2013 01:48 AM)mk01 Wrote:  you are welcome.

the xbmc not starting will be part of the "freeze", attached / non-attached this particular disk (being written in fstab) and whether it was or wasn't mounted during boot.

if I remember correctly, /etc/init/xbmc.conf holds dependency for "local-filesystems".

as the usb will be mounted with usbmount, when recognized by udevd during boot, maybe better would be "noauto" instead of "nobootwait".

with noauto the disk won't be counted to as needed for "local-filesystems" condition to be fulfilled so the xbmc should start regardless of it. try.

I want to use the "nobootwait" option, because if the USB disk fails I can then still fallback to running critical applications from the SD card (the domotics has rsync'ed folders on the card), which is way better than the system hanging forever.

Can the "nobootwait" be used at the same time as "noauto"? I think this would be ideal for me.

Thanks for the explanation!