[CentOS] Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill Init!

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Joseph Koenig wrote:
>>
>> Odd thought: have you tried a) looking at the drives in the PERC
>> firmware, or b) booting to linux rescue, and examining the filesystems?

> Well, sure enough, it can't seem to find any good superblocks. Even
> backups are showing corrupt. Will reinstall and see what happens...

You mean the backup superblocks are bad? And it was a running system before?

Is it still under warranty? You might consider talking to Dell about
checking it out. They'll want you to run the OMSA utility that scans the
system.

       mark