Boot fail because of missing disk

[peerk]

Hi,

My Pi sits on a network with no monitor. I have a faulty external USB drive that is no longer there - but listed in fstab.

I only have a Mac where I can mount the boot SD card - and can't see fstab. Can I do something to make Pi ignore the missing disk and finish booting so sshd is started?

[redhawk]

Does the USB drive provide part of the file system or just simply auto mounted drive??

Try safe mode perhaps this could bypass the error message http://elinux.org/RPI_safe_mode

Richard S.

[DougieLawson]

Get a new SDCard and a USB SDCard reader. Stick a copy of Raspbian (or NOOBS/Raspbian) on the new SDCard.

Boot that. Plug in the SDCard reader with the broken card in there.

sudo mount /dev/sda6 /mnt # if NOOBS
sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt # if not NOOBS

sudo nano /mnt/etc/fstab

sudo shutdown -h now

Swap the cards back and boot normally.

[Joe Schmoe]

Or, more simply, do the:

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init=/bin/bash

trick.