fsck cause big crash...help....

I have a serious problem with fsck fault and crash...need some help...
I was wrongly running the command fsck and the server got hang...
after datacenter reboot gets: kernel panic not syncing attempted to kill init and I could not boot in again.

I am a newbie in facing this problem. If so could I use a live cd centos to repair the system without re-installing?

If I need to reinstall the server, would it affect to the directadmin user data and backup? If affected, so how could I prevent the data lost and backup well and re-install the whole system?

I am sorry I might have too many questions but so sad I could not help myself to fix it. Begging help....

pic here http://i.imgur.com/gFdo8.jpg

I would use the rescue cd to boot and then chroot to the system partition and make the DA Admin backups and then transfer them off of it and rebuild the server.

Hi,

An alternative suggestion:

If you have a secondary drive, install cent os on this drive, and mount the old primary drive as secondary.

You can then Rsync the data from the secondary.

I'd also connect a second HDD with CentOS and mount the HDD. Something like this should work.

In /dev/ there should be a notation of your hard drive. You can then mount this:


You can then use df -h to see if it mounted correctly.


Good luck!