HELP! after power loss, system boots through mount of root fs then stalls

[Christopher Welton]

No, I did not.

On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 18:36, Adam Williams wrote:
> in rescue mode did you do e2fsck -c -y /dev/sdx#
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> Christopher Welton wrote:
> 
> >I run a RH 7.3 installation on a Compaq Proliant 6500 with dual pentium
> >266Mhz processors, approx. 630MB ram and a hardware SMART-2DH RAID
> >controller and array. All file systems are ext3. 
> >
> >The server has been in service for a couple of years now. From time to
> >time we will lose power in our office or have another situtation that
> >causes the server to lose power without a proper shutdown. We had such a
> >situation today. 
> >
> >Usually the server reboots to runlevel 5 without a problem. However,
> >today the server rebooted to the point in the boot process just after
> >mounting the root filesystem. It then stalls indefinitely and does not
> >continue to boot. 
> >
> >I used a recovery CD to boot into a rescue shell. Once there I
> >successfully mounted all the partitions on all drives and examined the
> >files successfully, so the data, filesystem and hardware all look good.
> >The filesystems were mounted ext2, not ext3.
> >
> >At this point, my suspicions are that some portion of the kernel
> >required for booting was damaged during the power-loss shutdown or that
> >the ext3 journal was damaged in such a way as to block booting. 
> >
> >I need suggestions on possible causes of the problem and, better yet,
> >possible solutions.
> >
> >I'm cross-posting this message on the RH 7.3 list.
> >
> >
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