Re: Help My Redhat 7.2 PC

[Steeve McCauley <steeve oneguycoding com>]

On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 09:56, Ramon Zarza wrote:
> Bing..
> 
> One month ago I had same problem. Or similar.
> 
> I don´t know what happened. But , I'm sure the server lost it patition
> table. All data are there, but not the partition table.
> 
> My server have 4 disk with RAID5.
> 
> I don't know why, but I don´t reformat it becouse I trying to recover
> log file to knowed what happened.
> 
> If you find about your problem please tell me... me be we have same
> situation.
> 
> (Sorry my english)
> __________________________
> 

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Li Bing" <bing li asu edu>
> To: <redhat-install-list redhat com>
> Cc: "Li Bing" <bing li asu edu>
> Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 3:25 AM
> Subject: Help My Redhat 7.2 PC
> 
> 
> > Dear All,
> >
> > Today the power was turned off suddenly in my lab. My Linux (Redhat
> 7.2) PC
> > can't start up after that. It stops at the following messages.
> >
> > ......
> > Kmod: Failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-3, error=2
> > mount error 6 mounting ext 2
> > privotroot: privot-root (/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
> > Freeing unused kernel memory: 280k freed
> > kernael panic: No init found. Trying passing init= option to kernel
> >
> > Meanwhile, the lights, Caps Lock and Scroll Lock, on the keyboard,
> keep
> > blinking.
> >
> > What can I do for survive the PC? I have a lot of data on it.
> >
> > Can I start the PC with a Linuc CD and then do recovery? Is it
> feasible and
> > safe?
> >
> > Thanks a lot!
> > Bing

Boot up with an emergency disk, you can use a redhat install
disk if you don have one handy and just stop before the 
installation begins.  Then go to Ctrl-Alt-F2 prompt to check
out the disk(s).  First try,

fdisk /dev/hda

to verify that you can read the partition table.  Then try
running,

e2fsck /dev/hda(x)

on whichever patitions you have installed.  If it can't find
init then it's probably your / partition that requires fixing,
although it would be prudent to fix all of them before
rebooting.

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