During the fires, we lost power and our Mailman server (FC6) ended not cleanly. Now the image is refusing to boot -- kernel panic. I suspect that the superblock on the very-non-virtualized hard drive is corrupted.
I've made these repairs before, and am hoping that they can be made through VMWare. I have a rescue disk. My memory is that I'll need to run fsck -p /dev/hda1 ... and so on, but probably just for the root/boot partition. Then it will tell me if the superblock is corrupt and suggest how to find alternate superblocks. I believe that this will be mkfs with a switch that says "don't do anything, just give me the information." But I'm pretty sure that fsck will tell me what to do. Then my memory is that I return with fsck -p -b <superblock> /dev/hda1 I write this seeking confirmation or correction. And to ask if anyone has personal experience with doing this in VMWare. My meeting is at 10 AM today, which means I'm not giving you all much time to respond. My bad. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
