Debian 9.5 on Dell Poweredge T310. After power outage, during boot, got the below messages on the console:
Loading Linux 4.9.0-6-amd64 ... Loading initial ramdisk ... /dev/sda3: clean, 279518/18317312 files, 11798527/73242112 blocks 6.912603] ACPI Error: SMBus/IPMI/GenericSerialBus write requires Buffer of length 66, found length 32 (20160831/exfield-427) 6.912762] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB.PMI0._GHL] (Node ffff8b8ebe9ae460), AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT (20160831/psparse-543) 6.913015] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB.PMI0._PMC] (Node ffff8b8ebe9aee38), AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT (20160831/psparse-543) 6.913284] ACPI Exception: AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT, Evaluating _PMC (20160831/power_meter-755) Nothing else was displayed so after 10 minutes or so I hit CTL-ALT-DEL. The system shut down then, displaying 30-40 messages during the shutdown process. I tried several workarounds to no effect. Then I booted Debian 9.4 Live from DVD (which had no problems booting) and looked in FSTAB on /dev/sda3 (root) to see what should have been mounted after /dev/sda3: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices # that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5). # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> # / was on /dev/sda3 during installation UUID=fd77e2aa-5e75-4fe8-b52a-5811150fc417 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1 # /backup was on /dev/sdc1 during installation UUID=eacce656-6154-42bf-911c-0818ff1074ea /backup ext3 defaults 0 2 # /boot was on /dev/sda1 during installation UUID=dd2ce01b-5ab7-4585-a44b-26886581f35d /boot ext2 defaults 0 2 # /storage was on /dev/sda4 during installation UUID=39ae4fcb-3189-4190-9b0e-f5a291244dc3 /storage ext4 defaults 0 2 # swap was on /dev/sda2 during installation UUID=92116329-d410-4dda-b2dc-503b83b4a2c2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 # /home was on /dev/sdb1 during installation (mounted as /newhome) # below disk failed and was replaced on 2018-07-16 # UUID=5b9811c9-bdd6-48ea-b0fb-943b40cedbf3 /home ext4 defaults 0 2 UUID=8e89e13a-2da4-4eb4-9370-30e94f930216 /home ext4 defaults 0 2 I commented out the /dev/sdc1 on /backup line and tried booting again. I got the above error messages but then the boot completed. So I'm now able to boot my server again but I have to mount /backup manually. Any thoughts on how to fix the problem so I can put /backup back in FSTAB?
