[ale] kernel panic help

[Dow Hurst]

For the future if this gets sorted out, you might try the Tripplite
software for running your UPSes.  It has interoperability with many
types of legacy UPSes.  The file system problem might could be prevented
in the future if you switch to a journaled filesystem.  If the partition
table is gone, can't Paula remake it to the exact same specs and then
try a reboot?  Under IRIX, I can actually specify the same
sizes/locations and a partition will reappear as long as no format or
filesystem creation has taken place on the drive where the old partition
resided.
Dow


"Eichler, Paula J." wrote:
> 
> 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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