Kai Schaetzl wrote:
Luciano Rocha wrote on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:08:31 +0100:
mount uses /etc/mtab for displaying current mounts, which is invalid when starting the boot. Check /proc/mounts for the correct values.
You can switch to rw with: mount / -o remount,rw
And then you'll be able to change fstab.
Yeah, this worked, thanks. I'll write that down :-) It would be nice if the system would ignore the problems with md2 and md3 and boot nevertheless as in this case it would have been harmless.
the b option to init/boot boots in emergency mode.
If needed, where would I do that? Can I do an init -b 3 in the repair shell or where would I do this?
Seems to be OK. What is happening is that you're telling
the system to
check the filesystems that where in the MDs in fstab. As
there's none
(it's lvm now), the boot process complains and drops you to a shell.
Indeed. I thought that using LVM manager would make the necessary changes (whatever they were) for me. I always avoided LVM as much as I could until recently and when I used it I did that already during installation. This was the first time I changed this stuff on a running system. I learned something today :-) I added the /dev/mapper entries as mounts to fstab now and remounted all and everything is well. Thanks for the quick help!
I have a small question, though: one of the LVM partitions is used for a (non-active) Xen VM and I cannot mount that as ext3. I know I have to unmount before I can run the VM on it. I want to have a look in it. Is there a way to mount it? xdva isn't recognized as a filesystem.
The LVM has a nested MBR, you will need to use a loopback specifying the offset of the partition within to get it to mount properly.
For example:
# fdisk -l -u /dev/es_storage/exch_data.1
Disk /dev/es_storage/exch_data.1: 218.2 GB, 218233831424 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 26532 cylinders, total 426237952 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/es_storage/exch_data.1p1 128 426220514 213110193+ 7 HPFS/NTFS # mount -t ntfs -o loop,offset=128 /dev/es_storage/exch_data.1 /mnt
-Ross
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