Right, so I have an external USB hard drive always hooked up to my
machine. I've a listing in /etc/fstab to mount it at boot.
Unfortunately, the drive does not boot because localmount can't find
/dev/sda1. Now, after the boot process I can find /dev/sda1 and mount
the drive just fine, leading me to believe that localmount tries to
mount the drive without populating /dev with USB devices.

How could I resolve this?

Thanks
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