Hi I have RHEL 4 AS running on HP ProLiant DL580 G5. The machine was running fine last week but was shutted down abruptly due to power and ups faliure. When i booted it again i got following error : Redhat Nash Version 4.2.1.8 can't access (null) exec of init ((null)) failed!!! : 14 umount /initrd/dev failed :2 Kernel panic -not syncing! Attempted to kill init!! When i booted from the RHEL 4 CD#1 into the rescue mode, it lodes the cciss drivers and ask for whether to mount /mnt/sysimage or directly dropped to the shell. I choose continue so that /mnt/sysimage could be mounted but it shows an error that no linux partitions found , dropping to the shell. At the shell when i did fdisk -l , it gives following output : Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: 146.7 GB, 146745262080 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 17840 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000ba26d Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 * 1 127 1020096 83 Linux /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 128 7775 61432560 83 Linux /dev/cciss/c0d0p3 7776 13894 49150867+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/cciss/c0d0p4 13895 17840 31696245 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/cciss/c0d0p5 13895 17718 30716248+ 83 Linux Here c0d0p1 is /boot, c0d0p2 is / and c0d0p5 is /opt. I tried to mount all the partitions and they are mounting fine but the / partition (c0d0p2) does not have /bin and /etc folders, insted of which there are files of same name. when i tried mkinitrd, it says command not found. I am not very litrate about RAID . Please help me in correcting this problem, its very urgent coz we have a demo next monday. Here is my grub.conf file:: # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 # initrd /initrd-version.img boot=/dev/cciss/c0d0 default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (2.6.9-42.ELsmp) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.ELsmp ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.9-42.ELsmp.img title Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS-up (2.6.9-42.EL) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.EL ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.9-42.EL.img To make things worse, I booted from fedora 9 cd in rescue mode and tried following commands: device (hd0) /dev/cciss/c0d0 root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) Now even the grub is not loading, it just displays Grub Error without any error number I've ran fsck on /dev/cciss/c0d0p1, p2 and p5, but nothing.. my /bin and /etc folders are not deleted but are corrupted i.e when i ls into my root directory, i can see bin and etc but as files (not as folder ). Is there any way to repair the etc and bin to convert them back to normal /etc and /bin folders with all the configuration files intact.. here is the ls -l of my root directory mounted in mnt after booting with knoppix live disk::: total 728 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 88468 Feb 10 2006 bin <--- file insted of directory drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 11 2008 boot drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 11 2008 dev -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 464080 Jul 4 2006 etc <--- file insted of directory -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 27 02:21 halt drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 May 8 06:38 home drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 12 2004 initrd drwx------ 86 root root 16384 Mar 12 2008 lost+found drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 27 00:34 media drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 11 2006 misc drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 12 2004 mnt drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 May 4 01:11 opt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 12 2008 proc -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1484 Dec 5 2005 root <--- file insted of directory lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Mar 11 2008 sbin -> ../init.d/haldaemon drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 11 2008 selinux drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 12 2004 srv drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 12 2008 sys drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 11 2008 tftpboot drwxrwxrwt 44 root root 16384 May 27 02:21 tmp drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 21 2008 user drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Sep 25 2008 usr drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Mar 13 2008 vars Can the original folders be recovered... -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/kernel-panic-due-to-file-system-corruption-tp23827734p23827734.html Sent from the Ext3 - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
