CentOS 7 dracut timeout fsck XFS

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GTA_doum
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CentOS 7 dracut timeout fsck XFS

Post by GTA_doum » 2018/05/16 16:43:59

Hello,
My CentOS 7.4 boot process timeouts after a File System Check on root, which is a XFS partition. Dracut eventually gets in special mode, I just type in "Exit" and the boot process continues normally.

How to remove the fsck on boot? I tried the fastboot on vmlinuz line in grub.cfg and touch /fastboot, both did not work. fstab file already has the sixth option at 0.

Thanks.

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Re: CentOS 7 dracut timeout fsck XFS

Post by TrevorH » 2018/05/16 16:49:23

Scroll back up the console output with Shift-PgUp and see if you have another error too. Also, once it's booted up, run mount -a and see if you get any error messages.
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Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
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Re: CentOS 7 dracut timeout fsck XFS

Post by GTA_doum » 2018/05/16 18:20:50

You were right, there was an error about the swap partition not being found.
I renamed its LVM name a while back and did not revise the grub.cfg accordingly. I removed the swap reference in grub.cfg, since it is not a critical partition for booting, and Linux discovers it by itself afterward anyway.

Thanks for guiding me in the right direction.

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