How Can I Pause the Boot Squence While USB HD spools up?

[MotoTom]

HI all,

I have a Seagate Backup drive attached to my PP V2 running 3.1.10-16-ARCH. It fails to boot from a power off state (drive is powered off too), while it boots just fine when I reboot (drive is up and available immediately).

My though is to put a 10-15 second delay into the boot up script just before sdb1 is called would allow for the drive to spool up before mounting begins.

I've been trying to find the script that makes this happen but even finding folder locations for those scripts is difficult until I get all the jargon down.

Thanks in advance for your help.

BTW, I am in the process of upgrading to 3.1.16 but I'd like this keep running after a power off event in the meantime.

[Socaltom]

I think you can still use rc.local to issue commands during boot. So you might be able to put in something like

wait 15
mount /dev/sdx1 /media/familydrive ?

If that doesn't work, you can probably create a service file that would do it.
Tom

[MotoTom]

Thanks Tom. I'll give it a try tomorrow.

You've gone above and beyond in helping me this week.