Starting from external disk: cannot unmount standard startup volume

Hi all,
I started my my mac from an external disk to do some maintainance on my standard startup volume but this volume cannot be ejected.
I already tried lsof to find out whether there is still a process running on the starup volume but lsof doesn't list anything.
what else could be a reason for this problem?

Hi Konstantin;
How did you get the system on to the external drive?
It sounds like there is still something that is dependent on the internal system drive.
Allan

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