disconnected drive stalls boot: prompt can be hidden

[Daniel Hollocher]

the boot pauses if I have a drive disconnected. There is a prompt asking to skip mounting the drive, but that prompt disappears if you exit the splash screen and go back. So, either the boot shouldn't pause, or the prompt should remain shown. The drive is just extra storage, and not essential for boot, ie, /home / /boot are all available on the primary drive

There are two fstab entries for the disconnected drive

The prompt disappears if I switch away the little splash screen, either with ctrl+alt+F#, or esc.

The way I ran into this problem is that I disconnected one drive to plug in a friends drive. Then my computer failed to boot (as I missed the prompt about the missing mount points).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: mountall 2.42
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 29 13:21:00 2012
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: mountall
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-09-11 (48 days ago)

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

The failure to redisplay the prompt after toggling the splash view is a standing plymouth bug. Reassigning.

[Daniel Hollocher (chogydan)]

ok, thanks!