cannot boot-up linux, unable to read superblock

From: kit kit (voa2mp3_at_yahoo.com.hk)
Date: 06/23/05

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    Hi,
    I have used installed a centos 4 distribution in my PC for a few months which was quite good. However, the system failed to start last week and shown the following message on startup:
    //----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    booting 'CentOS (2.6.9-5.0.5.EL)'
    root (hd0, 0)
    filesystem type is ext2fs, patition type 0x83
    kernel /vmlinuz=2.6.9-5.0.5.EL ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
    [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x15cbd4]
    initrd /initrd-2.6.9-5.0.5.EL. img
    [Linux-initrd @ 0xfdfb000, 0xeee2bd bytes]
    Uncompressing Linux.... ok, booting the kernel.
    audit(1119364802.006:0): initialized
    Red Hat nash version 4.1.18 starting
    File descriptor 3 left open
    reading all physical volumes. This may take a while....
    /dev/hdc: open failed: No medium found
    /dev/hdd: open failed: No medium found
    Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2
    File descriptor 3 left open
    2 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup00" now active
    File descriptor 3 left open
    EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock
    mount: error 22 mounting ext3
    mount: error 2 mounting none
    switchroot: mount failed: 22
    umount /initrd/dev failed: 2
    Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
    //----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    I have tried to
    1) linux rescue
    2) skip mounting and go to command prompt
    3) enable lvm and tried fsck for the volumes (one is empty volume? and another failed)
    4) run fdisk to list devices
    5) fsck.ext3 the devices or the LVs
    6) run fsck again and specify the superblock number as suggested (from the prompt and "mke2fs -n /dev/hda2) but all failed for /dev/hda2
    Fyi, I remember I have choosen to put everything (except /boot) under / during linux installation and the file system is ext3.
    I really want my data recovered. Please help.
    The actual screen dump is as below.
    Thanks,
    VOA
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    #lvm vgchange -ay
    2 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup00" now active
    #lvm pvscan
    PV /dev/hda2 VG VolGroup00 lvm2 [76.56 GB / 32.00 MB free]
    Total: 1 [76.56 GB] / in use: 1 [76.56 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ]
    #lvm lvscan
    active '/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00' [76.03GB] inherit
    active '/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01' [512.00 MB] inherit
    #fdisk -l
    device boot start end blocks id system
    /dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 linux
    /dev/hda2 14 10011 80308935 8e linux LVM
    #fsck -f /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
    fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
    WARNING: couldn't open /etc/fstab: No such file or directory
    e2fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
    fsck.ext2: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
    Could this be a zero-length partition?
    #fsck -f /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01
    fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
    WARNING: couldn't open /etc/fstab: No such file or directory
    fsck: fsck.swap: not found
    fsck: Error 2 while executing fsck.swap for /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01
    #e2fsck /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
    e2fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
    e2fsck: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
    Could this be a zero-length partition?
    #e2fsck /dev/VolGrup00/LogVol01
    e2fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
    couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks....
    e2fsck: bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01
    the superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. if the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alterate superblock:
    e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
    #fsck.ext3 /dev/hda1
    e2fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
    /boot: clean, 38/26104 files, 15417/104388 blocks
    #fsck.ext3 /dev/hda2
    e2fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
    couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks....
    fsck.ext3: bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hda2
    the superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. if the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alterate superblock:
    e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
    #e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/hda2
    e2fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
    e2fsck: bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hda2
    the superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. if the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alterate superblock:
    e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
    #mke2fs -n /dev/hda2
    mke2fs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
    max_blocks 4294967295, rsv_groups = 0, rsv_gdb = 1024
    Filesystem label =
    OS type: linux
    block size=4096 (log=2)
    fragment size=4096 (log=2)
    10043392 inodes, 20077234 blocks
    1003861 blocks (5.00 %) reserved for the super user
    first data block=0
    maximum filesystem blocks=20971520
    613 block groups
    32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per grup
    16384 inodes per group
    superblock backs stored on blocks:
    32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 4096000, 7962624, 11239424
    ****** i have tried all the alternate blocks, but the results were them same*********************
    #e2fsck - b 32768 /dev/hda2
    e2fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
    e2fsck: bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hda2
    the superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. if the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alterate superblock:
    e2fsck -b 8193 <device>

    #mount -o errors=continue /dev/hda2 /sysimage
    mount: Mounting /dev/hda2 on /sysimage failed: device or resource busy
    #mount -o errors=remount-ro /dev/hda2 /sysimage
    mount: Mounting /dev/hda2 on /sysimage failed: device or resource busy
    #mount -o errors=continue /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /sysimage
    mount: mounting /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 on /sysimage failed: invalid arguement
    #mount -o errors=continue /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 /sysimage
    mount: mounting /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 on /sysimage failed: invalid arguement
    #mount /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01
    mount: cannot read /etc/fstab: no such file or directory
     

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