Sounds like you have dead or dying hard drive. I trust that this server is being backed up?
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 8:59 PM, PACKETS <[email protected]> wrote: > > I just came to the office and was reported that apache is not running on > one of my servers. I forgot the error on the screen (it was about the > hard disk). I just quickly restarted the machine. However, when booting > up I don't see the grub menu. Instead, it lead me directly to grub shell > (if that what is was called). I see grub> on the screen. I tried to > press tab twice to check available commands but it was very limited. It > seems the OS or the kernel was not booted at all. > > This machine has no public ip so I'm not really thinking of a hacking > scenario though it was still possible. > > I tried to get the hard disk, put it to an external enclosure and tried > to mount it to one of my Linux Machine. When I do "mount /dev/sda1 > /mnt", it says "mount: you must specify the filesystem type" so I > command "mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /mnt", it says: > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, > missing codepage or other error > In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try > dmesg | tail or so > > There's no error in dmesg but when I check syslog, it has the ff: > > Jul 20 09:08:03 PHP kernel: hfs: unable to find HFS+ superblock > Jul 20 09:18:04 PHP kernel: VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sda1. > > Could it be that the partition is corrupted or damage? As of the moment, > I'm trying to mount the hard drive to verify files. > > > > -- Regards, Conrad Lawes --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
