Hi Anj / Mitchell, mitchell@riseup.net wrote:
am having an issue at startup. I get a notice saying "the disk drive for /media/datas is not ready yet or not present" continue to wait or press s to skip mounting or m for manual recovery"
My first guess is that a rule in /etc/fstab or /etc/fstab.d/* says "mount <some disk> on /media/datas at boot time." If you can find the line, you can comment it out (put a "#" in front). It'll look something like this: UUID=... /media/datas auto defaults 0 1 If you're using a GUI and /media/datas is removable storage (e.g. USB key, SD card) then the GUI should manage all this automatically; an fstab entry is not needed.
nothing happens if I wait; I have to press s.
That's because the OS doesn't know if /media/datas is important. If it was important, continuing without it might break things.