Linux RHEL5.2 VM Won't boot - Cannot fsck to repair

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I have a redhat 5.2 VM which will not boot on VMWare...

I've tried logging into maintenance mode and adding a file 'forcefsck' to /, which forced a check on next boot... that didnt get me anywhere and I ended up in the same place.

It's telling me that /dev/sdb1 is mounted, however when I try umount /dev/sdb1 is says /dev/sdb1 not found...

Has anyone come across this before or can point me in the right direction?

EDIT 1 : Contents of FSTAB

EDIT 2 : Result of 'umount -a'...

EDIT 3 : Result of 'fsck /dev/sdb'...

EDIT 4 : Result of 'fsck.ext3 /dev/sdb'

Can you post the contents of /etc/fstab? Is /dev/sdb1 the partition for /media? If so you could just comment that line out and that should let the server boot (at which point you can investigate more easily). — Paul Haldane, May 24 '17 at 12:20
RHEL 5.2 [Extended Update Support](https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata#Extended_Update_Support) has been ended March 31, 2010. — Esa Jokinen, May 24 '17 at 12:34
@John I think your `sdb` disk died or is unaccessible. Please, show us output of command `ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/`. — Mikhail Khirgiy, May 25 '17 at 15:58
Also show motherboard model. Does motherboard BIOS show current date after full power off (with ejection of power cord)? — Mikhail Khirgiy, May 25 '17 at 19:46
You can comment the `/dev/sdb1` line in `/etc/fstab` and then you'll boot the server. — Mikhail Khirgiy, May 26 '17 at 15:19

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 24 '17 at 20:22

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After looking to your fstab I could offer you execute umount -a, to unmount all partitions and after this run fsck for /dev/sdb or all drives.

answered May 24 '17 at 20:22

Alexander Tolkachev

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This seems to be having problems too :( See additional image at bottom of my post... – John May 25 '17 at 07:08
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@John well, if your partitions not mounted, could you try to execute `fsck /dev/sdb`. – Alexander Tolkachev May 25 '17 at 07:18
See new screengrab... 'the superblock could not be read...'. :( – John May 25 '17 at 08:06
@John try `fsck.ext3` – Alexander Tolkachev May 25 '17 at 08:07
identical error... – John May 25 '17 at 09:04
Well, you could try to run `e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/sdb`, but I'll offer you to make snapshot for this vmdk to prevent dataloss. Because all commands before was safe, – Alexander Tolkachev May 25 '17 at 09:36

Linux RHEL5.2 VM Won't boot - Cannot fsck to repair

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