Booting Into Emergency Mode

[tomtheappraiser]

I recently had to restart my server to move it. When I connected it back up, it only boots into Emergency Mode.
I checked the journal, and some of the items in red were
fsck failed with error Code 4
Noveau Invalid Rom Contents
Noveau E VBIOS Unanble to locate usuable image
Noveau E DEVICE failed to create 0x100000001, -22
Noveau E DRM failed to create 0x800000080,-22

also

failed to start file system check
dependency failed for /var/hda/files/drives/drive 2
dependency failed for local systems
No plugins found

I'm guessing this is disk 2 going bad? But I don't know which hard drive is disk 2.

I ran fsck on the OS partition and it was fine, But I still can't get into it.

Any ideas?

[bigfoot65]

My recommendation is as follows:

1. Download a Live CD like Ubuntu.
2. Boot the HDA using the Live CD and mount the HDA OS drive.
3. Edit /etc/fstab on the HDA OS drive and comment out all additional hard drives.
4. Reboot the HDA the normal way.

This will get you back to a useable system. Then you can investigate and determine which drive is causing the issues. You can uncomment each one at a time and mount them.

As long as you don't reboot, there is no issue. Mounting the drive should either work or not. If it doesn't work, that's the problem drive.

Make sense?

[tomtheappraiser]

OK, a couple of questions:
1) How do I boot the HDA from an Ubuntu Live CD? I have Tails & gparted.
2) How do I comment out the drives?

Thanks.

[tomtheappraiser]

I meant to say that I can use Gedit to edit fstab, I just didn't know what comment out meant.

[bigfoot65]

Ok, just download and burn a Live CD. Then when you power on the HDA, ensure it boots from CD.

Once you get things up and running, using the editor you place a # in from of the UUID line. Any line with a # is ignored by the OS.

Does that help?

[tomtheappraiser]

Got it. I'll try it now

[tomtheappraiser]

OK, I can mount it, but when I try to save the edit of /etc/fstab it say I don't have permission to access it.

[bigfoot65]

You have to run the editor as root user.

Recommend you use command line to do the edit that way you can run as root user. Nano is a fairly straight forward editor for the command line.

[tomtheappraiser]

OK, I commented out the three hard drives that didn't contain the OS (which is a 240 GB SSD). Still booting into Emergency Mode

[bigfoot65]

Could be hardware failure of the OS drive.

SSD is not best suited for servers unless they are enterprise grade. Not a huge performance boost for most home users unless there is a desktop with apps. Just my opinion of course.

You may need to research on the internet about this to find a solution. I am unsure where to direct you next.