2008-12-14, 18:24
When testing XBMC I noticed the HAL device detection in the logs, I therefor assumed that simply plugging in a USB stick or HD would be automatically mounted.
When testing, this worked because I ran XBMC in a full Ubuntu environment.
After removing the usual bootup scripts and skipping GDM and Gnome, XBMC has been working like a charm.... except drives aren't auto-mounted anymore
After some investigating, it seems that I mistakenly took Gnome's built-in HAL magic for XBMC magic. Manually mounting the drive will make it show up in the source listing in non-library mode.
Does XBMC have no logic to mount USB devices on its own? If so, I still could write my own scripts to mount devices read-only so they would mount fine and still be able to just yank em out of the system when I feel like it (mounting read/write on a drive you are planning on disconnecting any time is bad practice ).
When testing, this worked because I ran XBMC in a full Ubuntu environment.
After removing the usual bootup scripts and skipping GDM and Gnome, XBMC has been working like a charm.... except drives aren't auto-mounted anymore
After some investigating, it seems that I mistakenly took Gnome's built-in HAL magic for XBMC magic. Manually mounting the drive will make it show up in the source listing in non-library mode.
Does XBMC have no logic to mount USB devices on its own? If so, I still could write my own scripts to mount devices read-only so they would mount fine and still be able to just yank em out of the system when I feel like it (mounting read/write on a drive you are planning on disconnecting any time is bad practice ).