XFS won't automount at boot

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I am not a linux newbie, but certainly not a guru either. Been using Debian for a couple years now and have run into a brick wall on this issue. Fresh debian sarge install, everything working fine, added a second HD to be used for video storage with MythTV. I partitioned and formatted a 120GB IDE using XFS. I can mount the drive manually with no problem, so I added an appropriate line to my fstab file but this drive will not mount at boot. If I bootup and login I can use 'mount -a' (or manually mount it) and it mounts just fine. As I understand this whole automount busniess, a boot script should run 'mount -a' at bootup and mount this drive for me, yet it does not. Here is my fstab entry:

/dev/hdg /myth xfs rw,owner,user 0 0

There is no problem mounting the rest of the file system which is running on /dev/sda (a 5disk RAID array on an IBM ServeRAIDcontroller). Not sure what I am missing here. I check dmesg and find that XFS driver loads long before this HD is found, but I see a message stating:

"hdg: 240121728 sectors (122942 MB) w/7936KiB Cache,CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
/dev/ide/host2/bus1/target0/lun0: unknown partition table"

I would guess this is the problem, but dmesg gets appended with:

"XFS mounting filesystem hdg
Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: hdg"

after I run 'mount -a' after login. So why would the part. table be unknown??

Any ideas on what is going on here??
I have spend hours on the web searching for answers but to no avail.

Thanks.

[burnit]

/dev/hdg /myth xfs rw,owner,user 0 0

If this is the line, I don't see the auto option (note that default option include the auto option).

If this is the solution, I don't understand why with the command mount -a mounts your hdg.

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If this is the line, I don't see the auto option (note that default option include the auto option).

If this is the solution, I don't understand why with the command mount -a mounts your hdg.

Thanks for the reply burnit. I have tried using the auto option as well as the defaults. Current configuration is just one of the changes I have tried to make in an attempt to fix this issue. I am staring to find a few other problems now - machine does not shut down automagically when I halt suddenly and my keyboard works in the BIOS and during boot, but once X loads up it doesn't work anymore. Unplugging and re-plugging the keyboard when this happens (yes I know this is a bad idea) fixes the problem.
I am thinking about re-installing and starting over again.