I have (had?) a Linux machine with 3 HD's: two "data" drives (mounted as /data1 and /data2), and the standard RH allocations for /dev/hd0 on a different drive. About a month ago, the maxtor 200Gb drive which was /dev/hdc I believe, mounted to /data1, began acting strangely. I would get file errors, etc., and stuff that indicated a corrupted filesystem. I rebooted, and the problem went away. I should have run fsck a long time ago, but I didn't. So anyway...
Today I checked my logs for this computer (It's my Amanda backup server!) and the backups failed last night. So I logged in via ssh and cd'd to /data1. Well, "ls" reveals... nothing. No subdirs, no big, honking files that should be there. however, "df" says that /dev/hdc is 84% full, etc. So, I reboot again. It comes up in some sort of (File check) mode, (or press CTRL+D to continue, which merely rebooted the system), because it cannot boot properly. So I decide to run fsck; after getting a "safe-mode" looking login prompt. A bunch of errors fly by indicating some inode stuff, I did not examine them too closely. (I ran fsck -rV /data1 or something like that). Well, now, when I reboot, I get the Infamous: Kernel Panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. The boot loader comes up, so SOMETHING must be mounting correctly, no? I sincerely hope I have not somehow hosed my /. I have no idea what "options" to try and pass to the kernel... how about "work=yes"? "Boot=perfectly"? I really do not want to rebuild a server tonight... ~wab~ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
