http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=913996 --- Comment #1 from Philip Brown <philbrown@llcareer.com> --- Tracked this down: openSUSE periodially pushes updates out to user machines. When a user machine detects the update, it pops up a message saying updates are available and the user can then install the update or not. One such update is: recommended update for patterns-openSUSE... (openSUSE-2015-33) (patterns-openSUSE-apparmor Ver 20141007-5.1) If you install this update and then reboot the system, the boot locks with the message: Loading initial ramdisk... and the system is effectively bricked. Tried to recover system using Rescue System, but while zypper rm appears to work, system can still no longer boot. Only way I know out of this is a complete regen. Recommend: Assuming other people bump into this as well, remove the update from the repositories and then change the priority of this bug as desired. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.