Well, in that case, how does booting with floppy only once help. So does it mean that the first time it could not mount, but after that something happens and then onwards it can mount the drive.
Is it that after booting once there is some kind of update to mount the drive. Some fstab daemon or something updates it everytime or something like that.
oops!! lost and all sorts of wild guesses!
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