/dev/vg00/lvol1 /

[John Poff]

Hi,

This usually happens when your box has been booted in maintenance mode. Try renaming /etc/mnttab and do a mount -a. That usually fixes it.

JP

[Helen French]

The system uses /dev/root when it cannot find the actual device file. You need to find out what's went wrong with your system. As said above, going to LVM maintenance mode can cause this problem, but in that case you may need to find out why the system booted in that mode. Some nice things to try:

# lvlnboot -v (check your boot defenitions)
# strings /etc/lvmtab
# /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log
# root mail
# STM or diag logs for a possible h/w (disk) failure
# vgdisplay -v vg00

You can also get rid of this issue by recreating mnttab:
# mv /etc/mnttab /etc/mnttab.old
# mount -a

If you know something went wrong with the server, that will give you answer why it's mounting on /dev/root. Any of the above tries will put it back to the correct device file.

[Michael Tully]

This usually will happen if your system was booted in single user mode or LVM maintenance mode. It is easily fixed and does not cause any problems.

# mv /etc/mnttab /etc/mnttab.save
# mount -a

If there is something unusual that you did, perhaps let us know, we are always a curious bunch.

Regards
Michael
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