09-30-2016, 06:55 PM
(09-30-2016, 04:15 PM)Peter McAllister Wrote: I also had this problem and I just fixed it by plugin my fstabbed 64Gb Sandisk USB drive and external HDD. I'll remove them now from fstab if that's the root of the problem.
Try adding "noauto" to your fstab file entries for those two drives. This *should* make it so that they are not automatically mounted at boot (or with a mount -a command... so you'll need to mount them specifying the device name, but won't have to specific mount point or any other options you have set). Using "nofail" instead may also work, but will probably halt startup for 90 seconds . "nobootwait" would have be the preferred option, but it appears to no be available in ubuntu 16.04 onwards.
