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. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com