Hello, Im using RedHat AS 4 on DL380 PRoliant server and Cluster Application is running on it as the server was abnormal shutdown when i startup the server it is showing following problem that is

"Uncompressing Linux....ok, booting the kernel.
audit(1154959027.963:0):initialized
Redhat nash version 4.1.18 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!"

kindly help me out in this regard so ill be thankful..waiting for ur reply....

As I boot from rescue CD and when shell prompt occurs what i did i first check all the partitions and label there were all fine but when i mount my / partition and list the filesystem by typing ls -al and i found that in etc and root it was showing as follows

"? ?? ?? ?? etc"
"? ?? ?? ?? root"

and all the rest fs are fine

kindly help me in this regards...thankyou

looks like some filesystem corruption. Can you run fsck on the filesystems?

What's the history of this problem? Is this a new installation? Or is it a system that has run for some time and suddenly failed?

From a rescue-CD you should do an fsck on all drives, and make sure it really does it. Verify that the fstab entry is appropriate.

smartctl is also useful for executing on-drive diagnostics of the drive, to see if the drive thinks it's working.

A corrupt partition table is possible, depending on where and how the various apparently-corrupt mount-points are mounted.

Well thanks for replying, as this was new installation but it was working fine for 3 weeks as cluster application was running on it , it was also abnormally shutdown two three times but didnt had any problem but last time it was abnormal shutdown and now it was showing kernel panic issue ....as initrd device was not opening ....i run the rescue cd and mount / partition and check the /partition when i run the command ls -al ...i found that all file system are fine but two file system that are /etc and /root but were as follows in the listing

?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? etc

?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? root

now i want these two directory work fine so can u help me on this regards so that i cant do the fresh installation again...

waiting for reply

I would check the hardware as well. It's not normal that a system shuts down without any user intervention.

Did you fix this problem?
I had this same problem with Proliant GL380 G5 (2 servers) connected in the Storage (MSA500-G2).
The problem was fixed when we fixed the IP Address of ILO of each server in the Cluster Configurartion.

But now we are making some tests and when we have another problem, when we put off the Network cable from Node1 the Cluster try switched(pass) the service from Node1 to Node2 but it didn't get because it didn't mount the FileSystems because request to run "fsck" manually.

Did you have this problem, as well?

Thanks.
Regards.

Ricardo Olguin.