Hi Team,
My server is installed with Suse Linux (SLES v10 SP3) and while rebooting I am getting error like “[Linux-initrd @ 0x37c90000, 0x35f70b bytes]” on the terminal only. It seems that its boot image/kernel is corrupt. Could you please suggest the steps to resolve this issue.
Thanks,
You could boot from rescue media (original install media include rescue
functionality) and try to rebuild your initrd if you think that was it, or
verify your kernel is in place properly still. Do you know what may have
changed recently, like a patch applied? Patches that impact booting
almost always work properly, and the most-common reason (in my experience)
for them failing revolves around a lack of disk space at he time they are
applied, in which case they are not properly applied and then things
behave less-than-perfectly, of course.
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Thanks for your response.
I don’t know who patched or changed last time. The server was down from long time and when we tried to boot this server, we got the error [Linux-initrd @ 0x37c90000, 0x35f70b bytes] on the console only. According to error it seems its initrd image got corrupt. what could be other reason for this error ?
If it worked, and then it stopped working after it turned off for a long
time, then it sounds like your disk is corrupt somehow, which could be
caused by a lot of things from the passing of time, to shaking the hard
drive too hard, from extreme temperatures to cosmic rays. In other words:
bad luck.
It could also be caused by a misconfigured disk system, or disk system
operations that were not-so-great in the meantime, like incorrectly
re-balancing RAID arrays. Do not do these types of things.
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