Hello List Mates, After reinstalling openSUSE 13.1 for the "8th" time, I am now posting what I believe is a serious problem with "mkinitrd" . I have a openSUSE 13.1 installed on my entire primary SATA Western Digital Black 500 GB drive. The secondary SATA is a Western Digital Blue 500 GB drive with OSX Mavericks installed on the first partition. The second partition is Linux /Data backup. Over the last few months, I've had to disconnect the secondary drive when updating openSUSE 13.1 so that Grub2 didn't add additional entries for OS X 32-bit and 64-bit. When the last update had finished, I shut down the PC two days ago without a reboot. This shouldn’t have given any problems. The following day I restarted the PC, changed the BIOS setting from AHCI to IDE. I noticed that the start up was taking too long. I hit the "ESC" key to read that " /dev/root could not be found ". See: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853914 I proceeded with the DVD Rescue and typed: # fdisk -l mount /dev/sda1 /mnt mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev chroot /mnt mount /proc mount /sys grub2-install /dev/sda grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg umount /sys is busy or in use. umount /proc is busy or in use. umount /mnt # shutdown -r now The last two "mount" commands with /proc and /sys showed a message that "the file or directory was missing". After "grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg" I got an error on line info ........ I should have written it down . At the end, the first two "umount" commands indicated that they are "busy or in use". ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I rebooted with the Live openSUSE Rescue disk, started the Yast Boot Loader and noticed the: "Optional Kernel Command Line Parameter" and "Failsafe Kernel Command Line Parameters"fields were empty. Is it possible that "mkinitrd" was missing the ide and ahci control driver modules? And should I have changed or replaced the last two grub2 commands with: mkinitrd grub2-install /dev/sda -- Cheers! Roman -------------------------------------------- openSUSE -- Get it! Discover it! Share it! -------------------------------------------- http://linuxcounter.net/ #179293 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org