Telemachus - here is my end of rcS code. I can't take credit for it as I've snipped bit's and pieces from other code and made it mine. It works well especially with a SATA drive partition as the optware drive.

Good luck with yours!

-Sarah

# Wait for /opt to mount. For 30 seconds I will try
# each second to mount the hdd partition that
# holds the main system.
# Once it's mounted it will stop trying (common sense).

i=0; while [ $i -le 30 ]; do
mount /dev/sda1 /opt
[ -d /opt/etc ] && break
sleep 1
i=$(expr $i + 1)
done

# This just opens a startup.log and records the number of
# seconds it took to mount the drive. Booting via thumb drive
# takes mine 5 seconds and from SATA, 0 seconds!!

echo "Seconds to mount drive: $i" > /tmp/startup.log 2>&1

# If we couldn't mount the HDD just bail out on the
# rest of post-boot. All the stuff from this point on
# depends on it being mounted. If you have stuff
# that will work regardless, put it before this section.

[ $i -gt 30 ] && return


# If I made it this far the correct drive mounted and
# I can continue on with start up script.

/opt/etc/init.d/optrun.sh >> /tmp/startup.log 2>&1