Kernel panic - not syncing : Attempted to kill init!
Server appeared to stop responding. User (teenage son, windows user ) rebooted server (power off) mutiple times. Server now fails to boot fully. plugging in a monitor shows it is stopping with a Kernel panic.
server is setup as raid 6 not sure if hot spare was setup. bios shows all hdd
present. 2 X IDE 300GB ea 4 x SATA 300GB ea.
how do I recover from this ? Whats the proceedure to attempt to recover the data from the disks.
thanks
Last lines before panic -----
Raid6:device hda2 operational as raid disk 0
Raid6:device sdc2 operational as raid disk 4
Raid6:device sdb2 operational as raid disk 3
Raid6:device sda2 operational as raid disk 2
Raid6:device hdc2 operational as raid disk 1
Raid6:allocated 6285kb for md2
Raid6:raid level 6 set md2 active with 5 out of 6 devices, algorithm 2
RAID6 conf printout:
---rd:6 wd:5 fd:1
Disk 0, o:1, dev:hda2
Disk 1, o:1, dev:hdc2
Disk 2, o:1, dev:sda2
Disk 3, o:1, dev:sdb2
Disk 4, o:1, dev:sdc2
mdadm :/dev/md2 has been started with 5 drives (out of 6)
Making device-mapper control node
Scanning logical volumes
md:syncing RAID array md2
md:minimum _guaranteed_reconstruction speed :1000 KB/sec/disc.
md: using maximum available idle IO bandwith ….. for reconstruction
md:using 128k window over a total of 292929024 blocks
Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
cdrom : open failed
Found volume group "main" using metadata type lvm2
Activating logical volumes
2 logical volume(s) in volume group "main" now active
creating root device
Mounting root filesystem
EXT3-fs: journal inode is deleted
mount: error 22 mounting ext3
mount: error 2 mounting none
switching to new root
switchroot : mount failed : 22
Unmount /initrd/dev failed:2
Kernel panic - not syncing : Attempted to kill init!
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