Failure to make flash drive iso - SOLVED

[map445]

I tried to use Image Writer in Cinnomon 15. I wanted to try KDE on a 32GB flash drive. (sdb1Adata) When I booted up a message said, /mnt/media/* Hit S for skip or M for manual.
How do I get this message out of my system? I am tired of hitting S before getting to the log in screen. I have since reformatted the USB flash drive to fat32.
Thanks in advance.

[nerdtron]

Every time you boot you see the message?
Kindly post your /etc/fstab entry. In the terminal

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cat /etc/fstab

[map445]

mark@mark-System-Product-Name ~ $ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=137d3354-6882-4ef7-9538-a447715ddb3e / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=8fb569b2-9b64-46bb-bd13-caa012c9e5b3 none swap sw 0 0

/dev/disk/by-id/usb-ADATA_USB_Flash_Drive_1342415102340039-0:0 /mnt/usb-ADATA_USB_Flash_Drive_1342415102340039-0:0 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
mark@mark-System-Product-Name ~ $
I hope this helps. Thanks for getting back to me...

[nerdtron]

From you fstab entry, seems like your system is trying to mount the drive "/dev/disk/by-id/usb-ADATA_USB_Flash_Drive_1342415102340039-0:0" during startup.
If this mounting fails, you'll be asked if you want to "Hit S for skip or M for manual" during startup.
You need to edit the fstab entry, in the terminal:

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sudo nano /etc/fstab

You'll open up the nano text editor so move the cursor to the bottom line and add the "#" symbol in the last line to comment that out. It should look like this:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=137d3354-6882-4ef7-9538-a447715ddb3e / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=8fb569b2-9b64-46bb-bd13-caa012c9e5b3 none swap sw 0 0

#/dev/disk/by-id/usb-ADATA_USB_Flash_Drive_1342415102340039-0:0 /mnt/usb-ADATA_USB_Flash_Drive_1342415102340039-0:0 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0

Hit Ctrl+O to save.
Hit Ctrl+X to exit.
Reboot and the error should be gone.

[map445]

Thanks for your help. After the reboot, the message was gone; problem solved.

[tommyb.]

Thank you for writing this nice help tut. I have had a similiar problem, luckily i knew which disk it was, so removing it from fstab solved this annoying s m question at boot up