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

[Turnpike Man]

Yes, good luck with the knoppix and tom's endevours... I too suffered a similar
fate very recently, hard disc failure... of the absolute nastiest kind, I mean,
the drive may as well have has it's plates vanish it was so bad.  Anyway, I was
in the process of figuring out rsync (more irony) and didn't get a couple
directories to rsync properly, and still trudging through the problem, the disc
failure occurred, lost "some" stuff, nothing I can't live without though.  So
backups are so *SO* important.

laters,
David M.


--- Jason Tower <jason at cerient.net> wrote:
> knoppix has always been my pal in cases like this, although tom's root 
> boot disk performs a similar task (unless it doesn't have a driver for 
> whatever scsi/raid card you're using).  if knoppix/tom's can't 
> mount /dev/sdaX (not just /dev/sda) then you have either a corrupted 
> filesystem or a failed disk.
> 
> (despite the irony, i'll avoid mentioning anything about backups)
> 
> jason
> 
> On Friday 14 May 2004 09:05, Mark wrote:
> > Hi all-
> >
> >
> >
> > I've got major problems this morning with my samba-ldap
> > authentication box.
> >
> >
> >
> > Here's the pertinent information:
> >
> >
> >
> > RH Linux 9
> >
> > GRUB Bootloader
> >
> > Been up and running for a couple of months before I rebooted this
> > morning.
> >
> > Has the following error on reboot:
> >
> >
> >
> > EXT3-fs: Mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> >
> > pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
> >
> > umount: /initrd/proc failed: 2
> >
> > Freeing unused kernel memory: 156K freed
> >
> > Kernel panic: no init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel.
> >
> >
> >
> > I've searched on the subject and found a couple of things I could
> > try, but all involve getting into the filesystem, a task I've been
> > unable to accomplish.  I tried passing a 'boot single' to GRUB but
> > the same thing happens (although the error is slightly different with
> > a 'try passing root=').  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.
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm at a loss and panicky..
> >
> > Any ideas will be GREATLY appreciated.
> >
> > Mark
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