/boot shows nothing and 100% full (corrupted?)

[samengr 0]

Hi Linux gurrus

 

hope you all will be doing well.

 

Well I am facing a problem first time in my sys admin experience. I am using RHEL-4, I am unable to access /boot partition. when i try to access this partion or want to show its contents, It seems /boot is corrupted. see the following outputs

 

#ls /boot/

9?^?????tdÜ°??????4?çj?

 

#df -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00

145G 98G 40G 72% /

/dev/sda1 1.4T 1.4T 0 100% /boot

none 501M 0 501M 0% /dev/shm

 

Note: its showing the wrong entries /dev/sda1 (1.4T) and its 100% full.

 

#fdisk -l

 

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80000000000 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9726 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

 

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux

/dev/sda2 14 9726 78019672+ 8e Linux LVM

 

Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80000000000 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9726 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

 

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/sdb1 * 1 9726 78124063+ 8e Linux LVM

 

Can any body help me whats wrong with /boot? Number of applications are being run (24x7) on this server. I cant reboot it and cant interrupt the running applications. Can any body tell me what should i do now?

 

Server's info:

 

#cat /etc/redhat-release

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 5)

 

# uname -r

2.6.9-11.ELsmp

 

waiting for an early response.

 

Thanks

Sam