Ubuntu VM wont start - Recover mode?

[Th0rn0]

Hi there,

I'm struggling to find any other details on this sorry if this isn't the right place to post.

My Ubuntu server VM wont boot. When logging inot the console and booting iot I get a 'Mountall Event Failed' Error message and it just hangs. Upon further Reading I find that this is because the Fstab isnt set properly. I managed to get the node server to echo out the fstab from the VM that wont boot and it appears that ISPConfig has added entries into my Fstab and that's what's causing it to fail.

The problem is I can't edit the fstab. I cant boot it to get to a usable prompt and using VCZTL Exec commands just echoes out the fstab or I get a permission error message.

Is there any way to boot VMs into safe/recovery mode or is there any way of fixing this?

I'm using Proxmox 3.1.4 and the VM is a openVZ template of ubuntu 12.10

Thanks,

 

[udo]

Hi there,

I'm struggling to find any other details on this sorry if this isn't the right place to post.

My Ubuntu server VM wont boot. When logging inot the console and booting iot I get a 'Mountall Event Failed' Error message and it just hangs. Upon further Reading I find that this is because the Fstab isnt set properly. I managed to get the node server to echo out the fstab from the VM that wont boot and it appears that ISPConfig has added entries into my Fstab and that's what's causing it to fail.

The problem is I can't edit the fstab. I cant boot it to get to a usable prompt and using VCZTL Exec commands just echoes out the fstab or I get a permission error message.

Is there any way to boot VMs into safe/recovery mode or is there any way of fixing this?

I'm using Proxmox 3.1.4 and the VM is a openVZ template of ubuntu 12.10

Thanks,

Hi,
VM or CT??

It's sound that you mean an OpenVZ Container. But why you can't edit the fstab?

like

vi /var/lib/vz/private/VMID/etc/fstab

Are you sure, that the issue isn't console-related?
http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/OpenVZ_Console
Udo

 

[Th0rn0]

You star!

Was looking for ages if there was a file within the server node that I could edit for the fstab. Either I'm just getting tired or it's not that well documented.

To clarify for anyone else,

My Fstab has Extra entries that ISPConfig had put in. Infortunately these werent vaild and caused the system to hang at start.

Been a CT Container I couldn't boot into safe mode, however using the path that udo said to use I was able to get the fstab of the server in question and comment out the invalid entries.

Again, thank you