ivman is auto mounting '/boot', when i have 'noauto' option # grep boot /etc/fstab /dev/hda1 /boot reiserfs noauto,nodev,nosuid,noexec,notail 0 0 The problem is because hal has 'volume.policy.should_mount = true': # lshal |sed -n /boot/,/should_mount/p lshal version 0.4.5 volume.mount_point = '/boot' (string) volume.policy.desired_mount_point = 'idedisk' (string) volume.policy.mount_filesystem = 'reiserfs' (string) volume.policy.should_mount = true (bool) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Expected Results: Hal should check 'noauto' option in /etc/fstab Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 7 2005, 09:55:32)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.6.3, 1.9.4, 1.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r1, 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fprefetch-loop-arrays -ftracer -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fprefetch-loop-arrays -ftracer -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig candy ccache distlocks nodoc noinfo sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="es_ES@euro" LC_ALL="es_ES@euro" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--enable-new-dtags -Wl,--sort-common -s" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X alsa apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cddb cdr crypt cups curl djbfft dvd emboss encode faad fam flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit kdeenablefinal lcms libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl pic png ppds python quicktime readline socks5 speex spell sse ssl tcpd theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode xml xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib linguas_es" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET
thats just the default policy for IDE drives, if you dislike it, override it.
We'll go with the default policy here, altough with in some occasions it might not make as much sense.