Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (528 mails)

[Andreas Vetter <vetter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 25 May 2007, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:

> 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

Seems you forgot the 3 bind mounts before chrooting?

mount --bind /proc /tmp/local/proc
mount --bind /dev /tmp/local/dev
mount --bind /sys /tmp/local/sys


> 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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 Andreas Vetter

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