Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (528 mails)

[Silviu Marin-Caea <silviu_marin-caea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have updated my installation with this kernel from factory and it didn't 
boot anymore (it didn't see the hard-disk).

The problem that I'm most concerned about is not this.  What is much more 
serious is that I haven't been able to fix it to boot again.  Perhaps I 
didn't do the right things.  I'm gonna describe what I've tried, and if 
there's something more that could be done, please tell me.

1. Update the kernel 2.6.21-8 to 2.6.21-10, along with a good number of other 
packages (including hal)

2. Reboot, see that it doesn't work (it doesn't see the storage)

3. Look if the old kernel is still on disk.  It isn't.  Perhaps it should do a 
backup called vmlinuz-backup that gets overwritten at each update, so the 
directory doesn't become full of backups.

4. Decided to install back the old kernel with rpm --upgrade --force

5. boot the alpha4 DVD in rescue mode

6.
mkdir /tmp/local
mount /dev/sda4 /tmp/local
cp [...]/kernel-2.6.21-10[...].rpm /tmp/local
chroot /tmp/local
rpm --upgrade --force kernel-2.6.21-8[...].rpm
At which point I got a lot of errors, probably from the mkinitrd script that 
didn't see the hard-disk, because the device it's created dynamically at 
runtime, if I'm correct.

7. I have corrected grub/menu.lst by editing it and tried booting, but it gave 
the same error (not seeing the disk), probably because the initrd image is 
invalid.

I ended up doing a fresh reinstall.  This is not good.  Someone with enough 
knowledge should be able to fix this situation without reinstallation.

So either I don't have sufficient knowledge (easily fixable and not a 
distribution problem) or it can't be done--quite bad.

Which one is it?

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