[ale] Can't Boot! Need Super Block Wizard

[Scott McBrien]

Yep, looks like you're having problems with hda, the primary IDE hard drive.  It's odd that you'd be able to boot though.  I'd expect that it would likely be your boot disk.  At boot, there's an error about needing to run fsck, what does it say above that?  The fsck error is a canned message whenever there are filesystem problems at boot time.  The real error message should occur before it.

-Scott

On Jun 12, 2012, at 8:22 PM, mdkliman at aol.com wrote:

> When the system failed, the disk drives weren't on-line.  Now they are.
>  
> The full error message is:
>  
> An error occurred during the file system check.
> Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot when you leave the shell.
> Give root password for maintenance (or type Ctrl-D to continue);
>  
> Checking file systems
>  /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol100
>  
> Setting clock [OK]
> :
> :
> Setting host name dbl.mtmservices.com
>  
> Setting up Logical Volume Management:
>   /dev/hda:  open failed:  No medium found.
>   Attempt to close device '/dev/hda' which is not open.
>   2 logical volumes in volume group "VolGroup00" non active
>                                           [OK]
>  
> Checking filesystems
>   /dev/VolGoup00/LogVol00:  clean, 92521/17661952 files, 1846283/17645568 blocks
>  
> /boot: recovery journal
>  fsck xet3:  unable to set super block flags on boot [FAILED]
>  
> Does that help?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott McBrien <smcbrien at gmail.com>
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> Sent: Tue, Jun 12, 2012 8:05 pm
> Subject: Re: [ale] Can't Boot! Need Super Block Wizard
> 
> It's probably asking you for the root password, then after the root password is entered, displays a prompt something like:
> (RepairFilesystem 1)#
> 
> You really need the full error message. It could be that there is legitimate disk corruption. But more likely there's a device listed in your /etc/fstab that's misspelled or no longer attached to the machine.  If its the latter, not that big of a deal.  If its the former, that usually doesn't bode well.
> 
> -Scott
> 
> 
> On Jun 12, 2012, at 7:52 PM, mdkliman at aol.com wrote:
> 
>> I have a small business in Norcross, with 3 Linux servers running Red Hat Fedora Core 6.
>> One of these is a database server running Oracle 11i.
>>  
>> We lost power and now the DB server won't boot.  It displays a message about not finding a "Super Block" and - I think - awaits entry of a utility name.  Our programmer is conversant with Linux, but told me I need help from an experienced Linux Admin.
>>  
>> "I've fallen and I can't get up."  I sure could use some help before I lose any more customers.
>>  
>> Thank you, in advance,
>>  
>> Marvin Kliman
>> MTM Services
>> cell:  (404) 433-0900  any time
>> work:  (770) 441-3636 Ext 11  8am-6pm
>>  
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