Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (218 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Mark Horton <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>>>>Did yast somehow give me the wrong kernel?  It was the only kernel
>>>>available for download and this was the first kernel upgrade I've done
>>>>on this system.  This system was freshly installed yesterday.  Nothing
>>>>outside of the suse distro is installed on it.
>>>
>>> I just finished fixing the same issue on a 32-bit machine. The
>>> kernel is fine except the update does not execute mkinitrd which
>>> the reiserfs module doesn't like. Just boot off the CD into the
>>> rescue system. Create a directory in /tmp
>> Strange, I just tested on my private system (after testing yesterday
>> at work several system) and did not encounter any problems.  We had a
>> first kernel out that was broken indeed but removed that and issued a
>> new update :-(
>
> Booting off the DVD into rescue mode and issuing mkinitrd fixed it for 

Not so good:-(

> me as well.  I have the following modules in initrd if it matters: 
> scsi_mod, sd_mod, megaraid_mm, megaraid_mbox, and reiserfs.


> The really good news is that this kernel allows me to use USB, 8 GB ram, 
> and the nvidia driver.   Everythings looking good.

So we fixed at least one thing ;-)

Andreas
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