[ale] kernel panic help

[Ken Nagorski]

The bad news is that is sounds like the partition tables took a walk in the
park.

This is what I would do. Have them create a toms rboot disk,
http://www.toms.net/rb/home.html

Once the system is booted from the tombsrb disk then see what the partition
table looks like (fdisk) and if it is still there do a fschk on the drives. 

Other than that, I am not sure what other advice to give. 

Thanks
Ken

> I have a project in Vietnam that uses RedHat Linux 7.1 to provide
> network services for a University.  Below is a message for two of the
> servers that are having problems with boot-up.  I am not at the servers
> and they are 12 hours away, so I only have the information below.
> 
> Power is decent there, but can go off and on.  There are UPSs, but the
> power outage frequently overshoots the UPS abilities to keep the
> servers up and the UPSs available for VN have not worked well with
> shutdown daemons.  I feel that power must have gone out and the servers
> can't come up.  Can anyone help me with a possible solution to this
> problem ...pj
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cuong Pham [mailto:phamvietcuong at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 2:42 AM
> To: jwj2 at cdc.gov; pja0 at cdc.gov; linanmj at state.gov
> Subject: URGENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> 
> 
> Dear all, 
> 
> We have a big problem with 2 linux boxes, mail server
> and DNS server. Two of them are operating normally,
> and when we come to office this morning and check the
>servers, we found that they dead. They have same
> problem:
> log messages from Mail Server: proliant 800, 524 Mb
> Ram, 
> 
> .....
> request module [block-major-72]: root fs not mounted
> VFS: cannot open root device "4809" or 48:09
> please append a correct "root"= boot option
> Kernel panic VFS: unable to mount root fs on 48:09
> 
> -----------
> 
> from DNS server: Compaq professional workstation 500,
> 128Mb
> 
> I/O error: dev 08:00 sector 0
> unable to read partition table
> VFS: cannot open root device "805" or 08:05
> please append a correct "root"= boot option
> Kernel panic VFS: unable to mount root fs on 08:05
> 
> ----------------------------
> 
> we have try to find the problem on internet and found
> out that there are lot of people have same problem
> with us, but unfortunately there a no detail solution
> for us. 
> 
> 
> Please help, or let us know how to fix it
> 
> Cuong
> 
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