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Bruno Cornec | 25 Jul 2012 21:08

Re: Mondo-devel Digest, Vol 74, Issue 7

Garg Siddharth (UK) said on Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:07:47PM +0100:

> On the startup I am getting a weird error with /boot being inconsistent.
> I have tried to fsck it several times but the system is not booting up.

Did you keep the mondorestore.log file ? That could help understand
whether any issue occured. Also did you see anything wrong when
unmounting the FS at the end ? One could have been not unmounted,
creating the corruption.

> Any help to get me out of this situation and make my server bootable again will be much appreciated.

> > mkfs.ext3 /dev/vg00/lvol1
> > mkfs.ext3 /dev/vg00/lvol2
> > mkfs.ext3 /dev/vg00/lvol3
> > mkfs.ext3 /dev/vg00/lvol4
> > mount /dev/vg00/lvol0 /mnt/RESTORING
> > mount /dev/vg00/lvol1 /mnt/RESTORING/usr mount /dev/vg00/lvol2 
> > /mnt/RESTORING/var mount /dev/vg00/lvol3 //mnt/RESTORING/opt mount 
> > /dev/vg00/lvol4 //mnt/RESTORING/home

Did you also format the /boot partition correctly, and mounted it ?

That may explain the issue...
Bruno.
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Garg Siddharth (UK | 27 Jul 2012 10:22

Re: Mondo-devel Digest, Vol 74, Issue 7

Hi All,

I have fixed the issue (somehow).
While the server was booting up it was repeatedly reading the native swap labels which I had not created
while manually partitioning.

I had to remove all the labels from the init file in initrd image and then recompile.
Ran fsck again for /boot and the server booted up fine.

Still need to do a thorough POC as this was a really hit and trial process, probably not a convincing thing to
implement still on production.

Sid 

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruno Cornec [mailto:Bruno.Cornec <at> hp.com] 
Sent: 25 July 2012 20:09
To: Garg Siddharth (UK)
Cc: Garg, Siddharth; Mondo mailing list; Cornec, Bruno (Open Source and Linux Technology Architect); bruno <at> mondorescue.org
Subject: Re: [Mondo-devel] Mondo-devel Digest, Vol 74, Issue 7

Garg Siddharth (UK) said on Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:07:47PM +0100:

> On the startup I am getting a weird error with /boot being inconsistent.
> I have tried to fsck it several times but the system is not booting up.

Did you keep the mondorestore.log file ? That could help understand whether any issue occured. Also did you
see anything wrong when unmounting the FS at the end ? One could have been not unmounted, creating the corruption.

> Any help to get me out of this situation and make my server bootable again will be much appreciated.

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Bruno Cornec | 21 Aug 2012 16:40

Re: Mondo-devel Digest, Vol 74, Issue 7

Hello,

It's a frequent issue to have non matching LABELS for swap partitions.
Check with blkid e.g. to see what you have, and what is expected, and
fix /etc/fstab accordingly.

MondoRescue does restore LABELS and UUIDs, as they were originally. Is
they were lready incorrect, then it restores incorrect stuff 

Best regards,
Bruno.

Garg Siddharth (UK) said on Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 09:22:36AM +0100:

> Hi All,
> 
> I have fixed the issue (somehow).
> While the server was booting up it was repeatedly reading the native swap labels which I had not created
while manually partitioning.
> 
> I had to remove all the labels from the init file in initrd image and then recompile.
> Ran fsck again for /boot and the server booted up fine.
> 
> Still need to do a thorough POC as this was a really hit and trial process, probably not a convincing thing to
implement still on production.
> 
> Sid 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruno Cornec [mailto:Bruno.Cornec <at> hp.com]

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