[CentOS] filesystem mounting fails at boot

[Eero Volotinen]

Does it work usin netdev option?

Eero
10.10.2015 4.17 ip. "Imre Gergely" <gimre at narancs.net> kirjoitti:

>
> Hi
>
> I have an IBM blade with internal harddisks, in hardware RAID1. I've
> installed a CentOS 6 64bit on it, everything works just fine.
>
> After the installation, I've presented a vdisk to the blade from an
> external SAN (an HP EVA4000), connected through FiberChannel. I've
> partitioned the disk, formatted it and mounted it under /store, then
> added it to fstab. Everything was fine, until I rebooted.
>
> At boot I'm getting the following error for /store:
>
> Mounting local filesystems:  mount: special device
> UUID=2a587e95-4a6c-4336-bb8b-f0d066905bc5 does not exist
>
> It just goes on to boot without mounting this filesystem. After it
> boots, I can log in and give the command "mount -a", and it gets mounted
> without problems.
>
> As far as I can tell, the reason for this is that CentOS doesn't wait
> for the external disk to get initialized fully and it just doesn't find
> it at boot time. I have other CentOS blades, installed and booting from
> the same SAN and they work without problems, but I noticed that they
> wait a little bit longer at boot.
>
> Am I missing some stuff from initrd? What can I do to make it wait for
> the block device a bit longer before it tries mounting it ?
>
> Thanks!
>
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