On 02/06/2008 08:01 PM, Mike wrote:
Back in the 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x days, problems with kernel updates were very unusual. Since early in the 10.x series every single kernel update has had numerous people reporting serious problems.
For me, not a single kernel update in 10.x has worked without a manual repair of a corrupt menu.lst after working with grub command line to boot the system. I and others have reported this problem (bugs 346638, 348257, 272989 and probably others) without any response from SuSE.
I had that in 10.1, but I think getting the grub settings in Yast Bootloader has it all working for me. My situation is booting a raid 1 /, with /boot as a directory on /. Grub cannot boot raid 1 with a generic master boot record. I could always install to the MBR via the grub CLI, and it worked with no problems, but kernel updates would mess up. 10.2 was better. I have not had ANY problems with a kernel update with 10.3. I have made sure grub is set in Yast to install in the MBR of sda (and I manually install it in the MBR of sdb), and it has not messed up my system in a long while now. Even openSUSE Updater works to replace my kernel. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org