What exactely gets mounted on boot ?

[Themuppeteer]

On boot I get :
"mounting local filesystems [failed]"
how coms ? is it the fstab that he looks in?
everything works fine for the rest. Greetz,

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[Themuppeteer]

I don't have a vfstab.
What do you mean with "Just use mount /dir " shouldn't I type those options anymore ? guess not.

mount / /mnt/tmp

mount: / is not a block device
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[Themuppeteer]

and without the /mnt/tmp behind it, it says that according to mtab / is already mounted. Wich is correct. Greetz,

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[KenCunningham]

I think Annilhannic meant:

mount /mnt/tmp

rather than:

mount / /mnt/tmp

as you interpreted it. Also for vfstab read fstab - it's a Solaris thing! Cheers.

 

[Morsing]

To me it looks like it's the remount of the root file system that fails. What's on your /boot??

Cheers Henrik Morsing
IBM Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration

 

[Themuppeteer]

What do you mean with remount ? in /boot there are some kernels or is that not the question?
I'll look and post from the moment I can, but right now I'm working on another hd,...compiling my new kernel ;-) Greetz,

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[Morsing]

When your kernel boots it is passed a mount option from lilo (fx) that tells it to mount the root file system, usually read only. You can check this in your /etc/lilo file or by doing 'lilo -q' I think. Can't remember the exact option to lilo.

When the kernel runs through the rc.local file it checks all file systems in the fstab including the root file system, which is why it has to be in read only mode. After this check it tries to remount the root file system. I can't remember if it looks in your fstab for this. After that it runs through fstab to mount the file systems.

That's what I meant by 'remount'. But I don't think that's the problem because the / would be mounted ro if that was the case.

Cheers Henrik Morsing
IBM Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration