severe problem with fsck on bootup

[Incognito22]

Hi, got a very severe problem. I have two hard drives in my server and I am getting the secondary drive removed. Here's the problem. After the secondary drive is removed, the server fails to bootup completely, crashing at fsck.

The server boots up fine when the secondary drive is put back in however.

Has anyone ever encountered this problem before? Could the problem be to references to the removed drive in /etc/fstab?

thanks

 

[danielhozac]

I'd bet most of my money on [tt]/etc/fstab[/tt]. //Daniel

 

[Morsing]

Are you removing the primary or secondary drive??

Cheers Henrik Morsing
Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
& p690 Technical Support

 

[pupu]

Yup, it is /etc/fstab problem. Remove all references to your secondary drive from /etc/fstab and reboot. Make sure it is really the disk you think it is!

 

[Incognito22]

Thanks so much, I'm getting alot of replies about fstab, and I've already corrected that and hopefully the reboot goes well.

Unfornutately I have limited options if my server doesn't boot up since I don't have direct access to the server and won't have access near the future. So its a real big risk.


Best regards,

Dean


PS. Morsing, I am removing the secondary drive which theoritically should be simple.