[TriLUG] Kernel Panic - This can't be good for a Friday morning

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 09:05, Mark wrote:
> .  I've also tried using Tom's rescue disks, but I can't seem to
> mount /dev/sda (where the root partition should be).
> 
>  
> I've also tried booting with the linux rescue option using the Redhat
> Linux 9 install CD, but I wind up getting an error that no distro was
> found on the install cd.
> 

Well, it sounds like something has happened to your root partition,
though I'm not sure what.  You mention that you have been trying to
mount /dev/sda, however that is not a partition.  /dev/sda is the first
SCSI hard drive.  A partition has a number after the letter, e.g. /sda1,
sda2, etc. 

When the system boots up you should see something like this:
sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 >

In my case, this shows that I have seven partitions on disk A, numbered
1,2, and 5-9.   If you have no idea which of these is supposed to be the
rooot partition (maybe you won't have as many!), mount each one of them
in succession and take a look (from the rescue environment).

Feel free to hop on IRC (#trilug on irc.trilug.org) and some folks might
be able to give you real time help.

Also, hopefully you have nice rsync snapshot backups so if all else
fails your data will be safe.  If you do end up losing data, take a
gander at the information I posted last night about how to set up the
snapshots!  :-)

--Jeremy

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