HELP! External drives don't mount in Session/Live
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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
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#2
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.
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#3
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
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#4
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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.
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#5
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
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#6
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
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#7
The best thing for you to do is go for xbmclive if you don't need the gdm
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#8
I agree. usb mounting is tricky in this version except in a clean xbmclive,
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#9
tytan take a look at this
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=785263
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#10
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.
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#11
are you now running in the gnome desktop instead of the xbmc session? Didnt that work from the beginning?
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#12
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.
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