Carl Hartung wrote:
rpm -ihv --force kernel-*.rpm ldconfig SuSEconfig
I can't recall if the installation script handles this already, but repeating it doesn't hurt anything:
Actually, in this case I don't believe ldconfig are needed, nor SuSEconfig. Not positive about SuSEconfig though.
mkinitrd
This one is called by the rpm scripts. I haven't figured out yet what the newer packages are doing to grub's menu.lst, but they also do something here. That may have caused his problem as well.
I'd then exit out of superuser, exit the shell, log out of my desktop and select to restart the computer.
I've put this 'plan' together from memory. If I've overlooked something, I'm sure we'll read about it shortly. ;-)
I think it would be wise to check grub and especially menu.lst.
One more thing: Before attempting this procedure, you might want to first boot the system using your installation media (DVD/CD) and select 'Boot installed system' to ensure the appropriate environment has been established for installing the updates.
If that would work then I believe it indicates a grub problem and not a kernel problem. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871