How do I recover from a Linux CentOS 4.6 Operating System Crash

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Published on 2009-07-21T14:27:13Z Indexed on 2011/11/16 1:54 UTC
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Our x86 Linux server running CentOS4.6 has crashed. The machine boots only to the Grub prompt. We have tried using the "rescue mode" to recover the System, but it hasn't worked.

How can we fix this problem, so that the machine boots normally?

How can we fix this problem to the point were we can recover our files from the server

Our Linux Server Configuration:

Dell PowerEdge 1950 Intel Xeon 2 HDD (146GB each) 4GB RAM Hardware and Software raid setup CentOS 4.6

We used Sysrecord to boot the computer: the following are the output of fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 293.3 GB, 292326211584
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 35539 Cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000080

Device         Boot      Start      End       Blocks           Id     System
/dev/sda1    *           1            13        104391         83    Linux
/dev/sda2                 14          17769   142625070  8e    Linux LVM

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