[systemd-devel] Cannot mount anything after recovering and redoing boot mbr

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 27.07.15 01:18, Christopher Cox (ccox at endlessnow.com) wrote:

> I suspect that somebody here knows why, but all mounts now fail... well all but /.
> 
> Has anyone run across this before?  What did I miss?
> 
> I accidentally messed up my boot mbr. and I did a rescue cd and chroot in
> order to rerun grub2-mkconfig and do a grub2-install.
> 
> Now the system boots to a grub menu and tries to boot, root fileystem mounts
> but all other mounts fail so goes into "emergency" mode.  From that shell I
> cannot seem to mount anything, they all fail saying that whatever I'm trying
> to mount is already mounted or it's "in use".  I can't fsck umounted
> filesystems either.  They all say "in use".

Maybe your changed the order of your partitions or changed their
partition UUID? If so, then /etc/fstab will reference incorrect
partitions now. Make sure bring /etc/fstab into sync with your actual
partitions.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat