XBMC doesnt work

[Leiche]

Don't know what it did but that's magic - If only all problems were so easy to fix!

Thanks guys.

Derek

fine that it work...

[JohnW_57]

   magic?

Enjoy it!!!

JohnW

[reddieng]

Just one issue I've found today with the XBMC set up.  The Revo hard disk only had a small partition when received so I added a 450gb partition called Data into which I've added my music.

Now programs like Dolphin see this partion OK but XBMC will only see it if I've already accessed in Dolphin?  This makes the principle of starting XMBC automatically on boot a bit flawed.

On the old Dell the music was on a separate hard drive but it never had the same problem.

I've tried setting the system to re-start the old session and leave Dolphin running on close but this does not seem to work. Any sggestions?

Derek

[AS]

Just one issue I've found today with the XBMC set up.  The Revo hard disk only had a small partition when received so I added a 450gb partition called Data into which I've added my music.

Now programs like Dolphin see this partion OK but XBMC will only see it if I've already accessed in Dolphin?  This makes the principle of starting XMBC automatically on boot a bit flawed.

On the old Dell the music was on a separate hard drive but it never had the same problem.

I've tried setting the system to re-start the old session and leave Dolphin running on close but this does not seem to work. Any sggestions?

Derek

May be the Data partition is not automatically mounted at boot ?

AS

[reddieng]

Right, and I think I need an entry in the fstab file in /etc.

Been working out what this should be, my current fstab looks like this;

# Entry for /dev/sda2 :
UUID=7f464a30-d8bd-4e80-b646-4fabcd5ff820 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0

Not sure what the "none" specifies?

My partition is  sda3 and I want to mount it to  /media/data

Should my new entry be the following?

/sda3 /dev/media/data defaults 0 0

or do I have to specify it by UUID?

Derek

[AS]

Right, and I think I need an entry in the fstab file in /etc.

Been working out what this should be, my current fstab looks like this;

# Entry for /dev/sda2 :
UUID=7f464a30-d8bd-4e80-b646-4fabcd5ff820 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0

Not sure what the "none" specifies?

"none" here means "none device" in fact proc and devpts are virtual filesystems representing kernels structures.

My partition is  sda3 and I want to mount it to  /media/data

/media in PCLinuxOS is a mountpoint whose use is reserved to auto-mounting utility, like you have seen.
I would suggest a different mountpoint, may be something like  /home/username/data

Should my new entry be the following?

/sda3 /dev/media/data defaults 0 0

or do I have to specify it by UUID?

Derek

the correct syntax for fstab entries, mandatory:

device   mountpoint    filesystem-type   options   dump  check

Use of UUID or LABEL instead of DEVICE is greatly suggested in case of removable device, because the device may change depending on the order several device could have been plugged in, in you case the partition /dev/sda3 will always remain /dev/sda3, unless you repartition the disk.

Your new fstab entry should like this:

/dev/sda3    /home/username/data   ext4  defaults    1       2

only substitute username with your current username id, and substitute ext4 with the filesystem type you are using.

About the last two fields: dump could be used from dump program, this is really ancient 

The flag check will tell to fsck when automatically run at boot, in which order the filesystems need to be checked,
the important thing is that the root filesystem must be the first (flag = 1), all other follow (flag = 2) or don't need check (flag = 0)

[reddieng]

Thanks, that clarrifies a lot. I did not want to corrupt the file to the extent that nothing worked.

Will give it a go and report back.

Derek