Thanks for the feedback,
Nothing is working like we would like... (See below the message
the boot process is sending to the screen). Basically, it does
not start most of the services and dumps a bash prompt without
even asking for a password!
We have ran fsck on the devices without much except that the
filesystems were not cleanly unmounted. "/sbin/init 3" does not
give us much more. No there is no lines like
append ="init=/bin/bash"
in the /etc/lilo.conf. Some files are missing all of /home,
/usr/bin. Could the data be there but hiden?
We are thinking that our best chances might be to add another hard
drive with RH6.x and then try to recover as much as possible from
the old hard drive.
Any other suggestions?
If possible also forward a message to Letendre Marc-Andre
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> since I won't be able to look at the
messages for the next two days.
Thanks
Dominic.
My friend story:
--- SYSTEM ---
I have a Dell machine (Precision 410) running the system builder edition
of Red Hat Linux 6.0. I bought the machine in august 1999 and it has been
working fine since then. I have not upgraded to Red Hat 6.1 or 6.2 but I
have always upgraded to the various packages that were causing potential
security problems.
--- HARDWARE ---
Processors: 2 intel pentium III 2 500mhz
Memory: 128MB RAM 100MHz SDRAM w/ECC (1 DIMM)
HD: 13.6GB Ultra ATA
Video: Diamond Viper V770D TNT2 AGP Video Card
Network: Integrated 3Com 10/100Mbps NIC with WuOL
Sound:l Integrated 16-bit sound blaster pro compatible sound
CD: 40X EIDE CD-Rom
--- HOW THE CRASH HAPPENED ---
I was copying and pasting from Netscape to WordPerfect. The pasting was
getting slower and slower and taking alot of CPU power. At one point, I
waited more than 60 seconds for the cutted text to appear in WP. I
realized that the computer was using one processor to its max capacity to
do the pasting (which was still not completed). So I thought, there is
something wrong, lets close everything and start over. The
computer was still processing the "pasting job" when I got impatient and
killed the WP process (xwp or something like that). Then the xserver
froze and closed and that was it. Facing a black screen and not even
having a prompt, I turned off the machine and restarted it. Now here is
the "interesting" part. The booting process begins, I get the LILO prompt
and type linux as usual. Then the machine load linux and seems to be
doing its usual stuff and then interrupt the booting process and drop me
to the bash prompt without any error messages. The what I can see on the
screen, once at the bash# prompt is typed below
ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 or irq 15
hda: Maxtor 91366U4, 12982MB w/2048 kB Cache, CHS=1655/255/63
hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Uniform CDROM driver Revision : 2.54
Floppy drives : f0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
raid5: using high-speed MMX checksum routine
pII_mmx : 1187.196 MB/sec
p5_mmx : 1159.764 MB/sec
8 regs : 857.631 mb/sec
32 regs : 615.315 mb/sec
using fastest function; pII_mmx (1187.196 mb/sec)
scsi: 0 hosts
scsi detected total
md.c: sizeof(mdp)super_t)=4096
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 >
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun...
...autorun DONE
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) read-only
Freeing unused kernel memory : 68k freed
bash#
That's it. What worries me the most is that when I ls in /home it is not
showing me any files or directories.
--
Dominic Mitchell Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Department of Economics mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario The XXI century starts on 2001-01-01!
Canada, K7L 3N6 Le XXI siècle débute le 2001-01-01!
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