On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 14:03:59 -0400 --JC <jwc0@xxxxxxxxx> said: > Saw the following this afternoon while booting up Shrike (2.4.20-13.9) - > > VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev ide0 (3,3) > mount: error 22 mounting ext3 > pivotroot: pivot_root(sysroot./sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 > umount /initrd/proc failed: 2 > freeing unused kernel memory 132k bytes > Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. > > It looks to me like something on the ext3 filesystem for root (/) got > clobbered. When I start Partition Magic 8 from diskette, it tells me it's > now an ext2 filesystem - though this may not completely correct. Partition > Magic is a Windows product and I only use it for Linux from diskette boot. > > This leads me to some questions - > > 1. If it was downgraded from ext3 to ext2, does this mean that I've lost > the journalling part of the ext3 filesystem? Would this explain the mount > error 22 message while mounting the ext3? > > 2. What is the best way to recover from this? Is passing some init= option > to the kernel a viable alternative? What are some of the options I could > attempt to pass in with init= ?? > > 3. Can I recover the journal entries and rebuild the ext3? > > 4. Is it best to start from a disk image backup (which is about eight days > old)? > > The kernel panic also happens with the recovery diskette. And FWIW, I > think I may have caused the problem myself by running an fsck while in > multi-user mode. Live and learn, I guess. fsck did warn me, but I was > trying to resolve some weird differences I was seeing in file system > usage. I didn't want to make any filesystem changes, I just wanted to see > what it would tell me. :-( > > Any help would be appreciated, I am in over my head right now. Thanks in > advance. > > Rgds, > ~>jc ** jeffrey w comer > > > > > -- > Shrike-list mailing list > Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list Did you recently update to arjanv's 2.6 kernel? cause I have the same problems but only on 2.6 since i did an rpm -i . there is no /initrd dir. I also tried passing init=/bin/sh to the kernel but thats a deadend aswell. -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
