[PLUG] power hit... am I screwed?

Sandy Herring sandy at herring.org
Thu Jul 25 06:26:18 UTC 2002


The power failed while I was a work today. Fat lot of good the UPS did. I
tried rebooting my P-Pro S 200 (SMP) and it panics...

<detects Ultra 100TX2 controller>
hda: CD-ROM <etc>
hde: MAXTOR GL040J2 ATA DISK drive

Partition check:
 hde: hde1 hde2 hde3 hde4 <hde5 hde6 hde7 hde8>

<floppy stuff>
<IP, TCP stuff>

ide-floppy driver 0.97.sv
request_module[ide-cd]: Root fs not mounted
hda: driver not present
VFS: Cannot open root device "hda3" or 03:03
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:03


So, then I tried booting into single user mode from (what I believe is) a
good boot floppy, and it bombs out with...

<lotsa stuff>
hde:hde lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
hde: lost interrupt
ide_dmsproc: chipset support ide_dms_lostirq func only 13:
<more stuff>
Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.


I (of course, *sigh*) don't have a backup - and can't afford to lose /var
(it's my web server). It's running (or was) RH7.2 - which didn't have ATA100
support in 2.4.2. I had to finagle the bagel to load it on my Maxtor by
attaching the drive to the onboard controller, then making and booting into
2.4.17 and then connecting the drive to the Promise controller. I've also
got the media for RH7.3. I'm wondering if I create a boot floppy for it (the
CD-ROM isn't bootable on this box) if I'd be able to simply do an upgrade.
I'd prefer to get the system back up as it was and do the upgrade as a
planned exercise.

I welcome any and all help here.

thanks,
Sandy
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