HELP! External drives don't mount in Session/Live

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External drives don't mount. HELP! - tytan - 2010-04-30

Hey guys, I'm familiar with XBMC on Windows, but now need to use it over full Ubuntu. Since, I'm not fluent in Linux yet, I followed this Ubuntu XBMC guide completely and the setup went well. Only problem is whenever use an XBMC session/auto-start, external drives don't mount. I must log in to a GNOME session, authenticate to mount drives, log off and then log back into the XBMC session.
Is there a way to automatically mount external drives and make them available in the XBMC session? Thanks in advance. Smile

- vikjon0 - 2010-04-30

I think the xbmc usb mount does not work welll in Ubuntu Karmic when gnome is installed. If you install xbmclive instead it will work.

- AuXBoX - 2010-04-30

do this

CTRL+ALT+F2 to get to the terminal

Code:
sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst

go to the line towards the bottom thats says something like this:

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-16-generic root=UUID=9b0c3fbc-a8a8-4131-8dfd-05367a2c1003 ro quiet splash xbmc=autostart,noautomount,setvolume loglevel=0

and delete the noautomount
there will be two of these lines you don't need to do the recovery mode one

then press CTRL+X then enter to save

- tytan - 2010-05-01

Thank you AuXBoX. But i could not get the line you were referring to...maybe im doing something wrong? I brought up Terminal and executed the command "sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst". But there was no list or page to edit. Please advise, thanks again.

- AuXBoX - 2010-05-01

ok do this

Code:
cd /

sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst

if it's not there and you want to boot straight into xbmc then install xbmclive

Code:
sudo apt-get install xbmc-live

then edit the menu.lst file above

- vikjon0 - 2010-05-01

Quote:ok do this

If you read his question again you will note:
1) He is running with gdm not live
2) He has grub2 not legacy

- AuXBoX - 2010-05-01

The best thing for you to do is go for xbmclive if you don't need the gdm

- vikjon0 - 2010-05-01

I agree. usb mounting is tricky in this version except in a clean xbmclive,

- AuXBoX - 2010-05-01

tytan take a look at this
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=785263

- tytan - 2010-05-02

It Works!!! Big Grin

I needed full Ububtu desktop and the ntfs-config application worked perfectly. Big thanks to AuXBoX & vikjon0. By the way, this might be useful for other Linux noobs, maybe it could be documented somewhere.

- vikjon0 - 2010-05-02

are you now running in the gnome desktop instead of the xbmc session? Didnt that work from the beginning?

- tytan - 2010-05-08

vikjon0 Wrote:are you now running in the gnome desktop instead of the xbmc session? Didnt that work from the beginning?

No im actually running the XBMC session.