Linux failing to mount iSCSI on boot
Thursday, August 15. 2013
My Fedora 19 failed to boot if I had an entry for an iSCSI-mount in /etc/fstab. During boot the system just fell to emergency mode. To get the box to boot, I simply did a "stupd man's solution", and commented the line out. This is what happens if I have the standard line in fstab:
My fstab line is:
/dev/qnap /mnt/qnap ext4 defaults 1 0
It took me a while to get back to the issue and investigate, it was that bad. This is the clue I found on Fedora project's documentation about iSCSI. They said, that any iSCSI-volumes should be mounted with a special flag _netdev. I changed to that, and hey presto! During bootup, it first does something and then mounts the iSCSI-drive. I merged those two occurrences into a single photo:
It works! 
I'm so happy about this. For clarity, the fstab-line is:
/dev/qnap /mnt/qnap ext4 _netdev 0 0
