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removed /home; won't boot

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QAteste

Technical User
Jun 14, 2002
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US
Hey, thanks for looking!

Through smitty I changed /home not to mount on a restart. Now the 44P AIX 4.3.3 will not boot up. It has an error code 0518 on the display.

Stupid thing to do, I know. I thought I could get away with it since there was only a guest directory on it.

Anyways, might anyone know how I can recover from this mess that I got myself into besides rebooting?
 
1. Boot from AIX CD as if you do a Coldstart
2. Press F1 and enter to select the console (Key Board)
3. Type 1 and press enter for English
4. Type 3 and press enter for “Start Maintenance Mode…”
5. Type 1 and press enter for “Access a Root volume group”
6. Type 0 and press enter to continue
7. Type 1 and press enter to select hdisk0
8. Type 1 and press enter to Access this volume group and to start a shell. Now you should have a normal prompt.
9. At the shell prompt, try to define the mount point for the /home LV.

"Long live king Moshiach !"
 
Error 518 means it can't mount the /usr filesystem. You are going to have to boot into maintenance mode and rectify the problem.
 

It shouldn't be a problem to not mount /home. Maybe you hit the wrong filesystem??

Cheers

Henrik Morsing
Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
& p690 Technical Support
 
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