[CentOS] Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill Init!

2012-08-20 Thread Joseph Koenig
Just installed CentOS 6.3 from a minimal install disc. All was well, so I ran a yum update, as well as installed some additional packages (mysql, httpd, libjpeg, libpng, and more that I don't remember off the top of my head). Went to reboot the machine and now it won't book up. As it starts to

Re: [CentOS] Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill Init!

2012-08-20 Thread Joseph Koenig
Just installed CentOS 6.3 from a minimal install disc. All was well, so I ran a yum update, as well as installed some additional packages (mysql, httpd, libjpeg, libpng, and more that I don't remember off the top of my head). Went to reboot the machine and now it won't book up. As it starts

Re: [CentOS] Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill Init!

2012-08-20 Thread Joseph Koenig
Yes, grub was installed, and it would seem PERC controller is presenting drives to the system - at least it was. Before I ran a yum update after installing the system, I could boot it and log in just fine. Worth reinstalling from the minimal install disc again just to make sure that still

Re: [CentOS] Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill Init!

2012-08-20 Thread Joseph Koenig
Odd thought: have you tried a) looking at the drives in the PERC firmware, or b) booting to linux rescue, and examining the filesystems? Well, sure enough, it can't seem to find any good superblocks. Even backups are showing corrupt. Will reinstall and see what happens... Thanks!

Re: [CentOS] Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill Init!

2012-08-20 Thread Joseph Koenig
Well, sure enough, it can't seem to find any good superblocks. Even backups are showing corrupt. Will reinstall and see what happens... You mean the backup superblocks are bad? And it was a running system before? Is it still under warranty? You might consider talking to Dell about checking