Comment 2 for bug 505583

I have something similar in karmic.

I have quite a lot of external USB-drives connected to my headless karmic server and every boot there's a couple of drives that hasn't finished spinning up when mountall tries to mount their filesystems. This is no problem per se for me, the system is ready for login quicker than if I had to wait for them.

I get the message:

"One or more of the mounts listed in /etc/fstab cannot yet be mounted:
(ESC for recovery shell)"

Which is quite ok.

What's not OK though is that after I've waited for the disk to spin up, mountall to either fsck and then mount or just mount it tty1 is unusable until I've gone through the entire process of entering and exiting the recovery shell once per filesystem that had to be waited on.

The one thing that annoys me the most is when I have to log in to do a quick edit of a file, and forget about the ESC + Ctrl-D that I should have done before logging in. I log in, vi [file], edit something, press ESC to exit edit mode in vi and get hit with:
"Give root password for maintenance
(or type CONTROL-D to continue):"

Isn't there a way to remove the trap for ESC once all mounts have finished successfully?