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I have a server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (2.6.9.55.ELsmp). When it starts up I get the following error:
Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
Red Hat nash version 4.2.1.10 starting
WARNING: can't access (null)
exec of init ((null)) failed!!!: 14
unmount /initrd/dev failed: 2
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
After that I got no response from the OS. I have the installation CD, so I tried to start the rescue mode, while going through the steps I received an error stating that mounting to /mnt/sysimage failed and that if I want to I can access a shell. I really don't know what to do from here, I know that I seem to be a complete newbie, but I really need some help solving this issue.
From the messages I'd say your initrd image is bad and will need to be replaced with a working one. You'll typically find it in your /boot of your harddrive and sometimes there will be a symbolic link to it in / of your harddrive. The rescue cd should have tools to generate a new one, mkinitrd, yaird, mkinitramfs, ...
another possibility is that your harddrive has issues since you had that mounting issue though it's hard to tell from what you've stated.
I mounted sda1 in a temporary directory and found that it resembles /boot, I was also able to locate the file initrd-2.6.9-55.ELsmp, is this of any help???
I am asking them, but they are not replying, they told me to run fsck on the partitions however that did not solve the problem, I am now waiting for their reply, and anyone here who can help me out.
if you crack open the kernel rpm you should have a copy of the initrd file there and can use that to compare it against to see if the initrd image is good. I typically use mc (midnight commander) to get files out of an rpm (or deb, iso, ...)
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