Hi Ron, the typical solution in such a case is: Restore from backup. :-|
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 11:27:42AM -0400, Ron Croonenberg wrote: > I found the FC3 rescuecd somewhere it is 2.6.12-1.667 > (that was what was initially installed.) > > > btw: I remember, before the reboot with the kernel panic, that when I > booted the machine it said it booted from an unclean shutdown (or > something along that road). > I thought a reboot would take care of that (but probably not with broken > raid memory) > > I tried to boot with all 4 kernels (667, 1381 both regular and smp) > and they all give me the same error. > > I mounted the file system with the rescue cd and saw the following. > > there is nothing in /mnt/sysimage/initrd (so if it tries to do > something with /initrd/dev I understand that can't work) > > I also checked what is in /etc (/mnt/sysimage/etc) with: > > ls /mnt/sysimage/etc/in* > > I get: > > /etc/init-d Input/Output error > /etc/inittab Input/Output error > /etc/initlog.conf Input/Output error > > (btw, other places don't seem affected, it looks like all the data etc > is there) > Maybe I should run fsck on that drive (it is a raid) first, and than try > and see what happens? > > Can I (I how do I) run fsck from the rescue cd? I'd suggest running rpm --verify -a, then re-installing the affected packages. Of course, do 1) backup first, 2) run e2fsck on the partition. Input/Output error is either a sign of severe filesystem corruption or a sign of hardware failure - check your logs! Recue CDs are design to allow fsck ;) - figure out the device, then use it to run fsck. BE SURE TO HAVE BACKUPS! If the RAID had a problem, both disks might be broken in different ways - I would not trust that data without some serious integrity checks or similar. HTH, Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.tisc.de _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
