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Title: E-Smith 4.1 Question
Post by: Eric on January 13, 2004, 02:06:04 AM

I have been using the 4.1 version for a number of years now without any problems.  Overnight two days ago, we lost power, and my UPS did not kick in (I guess the battery happened to die too).

Now, when I boot it up, I get a "Kernel panic; unable to mount root fs on 03:06"

I tried to upgrade to verison 6.0, and I get an error message of "Error mounting filesystem on hda6: Invaild argument"

I'm pretty sure the hard drive itself is good, so I don't think this is a hardware problem.

Is there anything else somone can think of?  I have about 100GB of data on that server I'd like to save.  Any ideas or help will be greatly appreciated.  Feel free to email me at dragasoni@hotmail

Thanks in advance,

Eric

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Title: Re: E-Smith 4.1 Question
Post by: guestHH on January 13, 2004, 09:49:37 AM

I guess your filesystem is broken. Did you try a fsck on /dev/whatever ?

guestHH

Title: Re: E-Smith 4.1 Question
Post by: Eric on January 13, 2004, 11:25:26 PM

It won't let me do anything.  It locks up very fast during its start up, and I get that unable to mount root fs on 03:06.

I'm guessing I just have to reinstall huh?

Title: Re: E-Smith 4.1 Question
Post by: J Santos on January 14, 2004, 01:07:17 AM

Hi.

I have the same problem with an sme 5.1.2 box. I try the control-x at boot and booting with "esmith single" (I don't see any diference when I boot "esmith" or "esmith single", and by the way, when I press the tab key at the boot menu, the only thing then I see is "esmith" and "esmith-up" I've been try all the possibilities and "nothing", the box stops at line

...freeing unused kernel memory...

if someone helps me...

Thanks

Title: Re: E-Smith 4.1 Question
Post by: Nathan Fowler on January 14, 2004, 02:16:08 AM

Eric,  you can try downloading a Linux Recovery Image and using raw-write to write it to floppy.  Boot that floppy and try to fsck the filesystem.

Jantos, can you try passing "esmith mem=XM" where X is the size of RAM installed in your computer?  IE:  "esmith mem=128M"?

Title: Re: E-Smith 4.1 Question
Post by: Eric on January 16, 2004, 03:27:34 PM

Nathan,

I downloaded a Linux recovery utility from this site: http://www.data-recovery-software.net/Linux_Recovery_Download.shtml

I'm at work right now, so I have not had a chance to try this (the server is at home)

Did you think this is an acceptable recovery utlity or do you recommend a better one.

By the way, thank you so much for your help :)

-Eric-

Title: Re: E-Smith 4.1 Question
Post by: Nathan Fowler on January 16, 2004, 03:33:28 PM

I might would try tomsrtbt:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/tomsrtbt/?topic_id=137%2C139%2C140%2C147%2C253