I filed a ticket and I was told, and I quote, "Unfortunately, as an unmanaged provider, we wouldn't be intimately familiar with the internal configuration of your Linode,..." After shutdown/resize of swap my linode will not reboot

Hi,
Did you enter the lish console before you rebooted and watched any output that might have been given?

Blake

First, thanks for responding...

I did not check the logs until my linode would not reboot. I then tried everything here: http://library.linode.com/troubleshooti ... escue-mode

and even

http://library.linode.com/troubleshooti ... ken-system

I can't seem to get /dev/xvda to "really" mount. It will tell me it's mounted if I try to remount but it tells me that /media/xvda (the mount location) is busy?

Hi,
Unfortunately, I'm at a loss. I'm not quite sure why your linode might be doing something like that. I've never actually had that problem before, but perhaps you could try unmounting and remounting your file system within the finux environment. If that still doesn't work, I'm not quite sure what to tell you.

From the output of your console sessions, it looks to me like your filesystem is missing quite a bit of important stuff.

Does /sbin/init exist (in Rescue Mode it'll be under where you mounted xvda)? How about the contents of /path/to/xvda/etc/ ?

-Chris

I was up all night working and in a fit of stupidness I think I ran mkfs.xfs -f /dev/xvda instead of directing it to a new path. I was following steps and didn't pay attention. Lesson learned. Building a new server out now.

Thanks all