How to manually mount vmfs volume?

Hello,

We have an issue with one of our old esx, v.2.5.5. This ESX crash each time we boot it in normal mode, after only 2 or 3 minutes. We juste know it crashes when the vmware service is started, after a couple of minutes.

So the only thing we can do is to start it in linux-up mode (esx safe mode), with network.

Now, we would just like to recover one VM which is on a local vmfs volume (to put it on another esx). But when you boot in linux-up mode, the vmfs volumes are not mounted.

So is there a way to mount manually the vmfs volumes from linux-up mode? Just to recover our VM?

Thank you.