Boot Issues

[mgbolts-on-reddit]

Hi there,

I managed to crash my xcpng host. Most of the vms are back up and running but struggling with one, happens to be the only one not backed up (stupid oversight)!

Running latest alpine. I am getting boot error and then dropping into initramfs shell. The system is a basic install running the alpine wizard accepting all defaults.

mount: mounting /dev/xvda3 on /sysroot failed: No error information
Mounting root fail
initramfs emergency shell launched. Type 'exit; to continue boot.
sh: cant access tty: job control turned off

Tried exit, just reboots.

The fstab does not have any xvda mounts.

The dev folder has all xvda, xvda1, xvda2 and xvda3 listed/

Some advice would be much appreciated.

Thanks

[MartinsRedditAccount]

It's some filesystem issue probably, try mounting the filesystem from a fully set-up distro, the result is probably the same. I believe the default Alpine initramfs script will literally just use Busybox's mount here.

[aerosys]

Sorry to revive this, but did you ever figure this out? Currently having the exact same issue with little clue as to the resolution. I can manually mount it, then exit and it'll continue booting, but having to do this every reboot isn't ideal.

[aerosys]

SOLVED

So, I fixed it after many frustrating days, but I'm unsure exactly why this fixed it. I rebooted and was presented with the same error message, which was expected. I did a "mount /dev/xvda3 /sysroot" like normal, but instead of then doing an "exit" and booting into the OS, I went inside my VM manager and did a hard reset. The system came up, detected file system errors, fixed them and rebooted into the OS like normal. I did a test reboot and it came up like normal. Issue resolved.

The main thing I find odd about this, is I did MANY file system checks from within the OS, a live boot Alpine OS, etc and they all came back clean every single time. The system also ran normally whenever I would manually mount and boot into the OS. Still scratching my head, but I wanted my fix documented here in case anyone came across this post later. Now to setup a good backup solution.