I did catch the error in the fstab and put the mount for /boot after the mount for /.
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Joe Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > Have a VM guest running SLES 11 - has been working fine for months - > rebooted several times. Over the weekend there was a problem with the SAN > switch and the guest lost it's paths to disk. Now when we try to boot the > guest, we see the following. > > Waiting for device /dev/sda3 to appear: ok > > fsck 1.41.1 (01-Sep-2008) > > [/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /] fsck.ext3 -a /dev/sda3 > > fsck.ext3: Device or resource busy while trying to open /dev/sda3 > > Filesystem mounted or opened exclusively by another program? > > fsck failed. Mounting root device read-only. > > Mounting root /dev/sda3 > > mount -o ro,acl,user_xattr -t ext3 /dev/sda3 /root > > mount: /dev/sda3 already mounted or /root busy > > could not mount root filesystem -- exiting to /bin/sh > > We've booted the guest in repair mode. I initially used the "Repair > Installed System" tool to repair the file system and it came back clean. I > then logged onto the system using ssh and manually mounted /dev/sda3 to /mnt > and looked around - everything looks good. I umounted /mnt and manually ran > "fsck -t ext3 /dev/sda3" again, it was clean. Still, when the system is > booted, the above messages appear. > > Also, I've used both the /dev/sdax aliases and the /dev/disk/by-path/xxx > full names in the fstab with the same result. > inst-sys:/mnt/etc # cat fstab > /dev/sda1 /boot ext3 > acl,user_xattr 1 2 > /dev/sda2 swap swap > defaults 0 0 > /dev/sda3 / ext3 > acl,user_xattr 1 1 > #/dev/disk/by-path/ccw-0.0.d000-zfcp-0x5006048ad52cea89:0x0701000000000000-part2 > swap swap defaults 0 0 > #/dev/disk/by-path/ccw-0.0.d000-zfcp-0x5006048ad52cea89:0x0701000000000000-part3 > / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1 > #/dev/disk/by-path/ccw-0.0.d000-zfcp-0x5006048ad52cea89:0x0701000000000000-part1 > /boot ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2 > > Looking for ideas on what to look at next. > > Thanks, > > Joe > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
