system crashes at boot

[mister_v]

I have a virtual Linux server,
that failed to boot because a disk is not connected.
But it is just for the backups, so nothing critical on it.
Why can't it boot and just warn me.
Problem is, because it doesn't do a full boot. I can't ssh to it.

[Chris]

Sure it is crashing because of disk ?

You can disable mounting the disk in /etc/fstab
Just comment it out with #
or you can add noauto, so it doesn't mount at boot.
like for a cd-rom

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# Device        Mountpoint      FStype  Options         Dump    Pass#
/dev/cd0        /cdrom          cd9660  ro,noauto       0       0

Or you can add nofail, so it does not report errors for this device if it does not exist.

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# Device        Mountpoint      FStype  Options         Dump    Pass#
UUID=1234fd-54d2-4890-84b-da4efd72 /media/Data1 ext4 defaults,nofail 0 0