Hi everyone, I've been running Redhat 7.2 (new install) for about 2 weeks now without any problems, but today I was not so lucky. My system hung while I was trying to configure the kernel-source RPM using 'xconfig'. After rebooting the system, it seems that my whole ext3 file system is corrupted. I get the message: Mounting root filesystem EXT3-fs: ide0(3,3):couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (200 0200). mount: error 22 mounting ext3 pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd_ failed: 2 Freeing unused kernel memory: 220k freed Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel (system hangs.......) At this point I decided to boot from the CDROM and go into "linux rescue" mode. The rescue mode tried to mount the RedHat Linux installation to /mnt/sysimage but this failed, so it kicked me into a command shell. Being a newbie kernel hacker, I ran the following utilities that I was familiar with most. Please see below for their respective outputs: 1) fdisks -l => shows that my root partition(/) still resides in /dev/hda3 /dev/hda1 is my Linux boot /dev/hda2 is my Linux swap 2) mke2fs /dev/hda3 => mkefs 1.23, 15, Aug-2001 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 Filesystem label = OS type: Linux Block size = 4096 (log = 2) 4980736 inodes, 9958291 blocks 497914 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=0 304 block groups 32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group 16384 inodes per group Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768, 98304, etc.................. 7962624 Writing inode tables: done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done This filesystem will be automatically checked every 31 mounts or 180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override. 3) fsck.ext3 -v /dev/hda3 e2fsck 1.23, 15-Aug-2001 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 /dev/hda3: clean, 11/4980736 files, 156309/9958291 blocks I rebooted the system and got the same message: Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel This was the extent of my file system knowledge. Any help you can provide would be great cause it would save me hours/days of work. thank you, Andy
