Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (824 mails)

[Andreas Vetter <vetter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 8 Sep 2007, Andreas Vetter wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I updated a x86_64 machine from beta1 to beta3. After the packages were 
> installed I found the machine in a reboot loop. The grub boot loader was 
> not working any longer. So I tried Repair System. The automatic one 
> obviously deleted Windows from menu.lst. Then it threw an error about not 
> being able to access /dev/fd/62. A second try with this one left me with a 
> single entry for linux (i.e. failsafe and xen were gone, too).

This seems to be the problem reported by Rajko on this list earlier with 
subject:
[opensuse-factory] openSUSE 10.3, kernel update 2.6.22.5-12 doesn't create initrd

The online update repo was enabled during the update. This might explain 
it.

 
> So I tried the Expert option Repair Boot Loader. It recreated the default 
> and failsafe entries in menu.lst, but was not able to create initrd. the 
> script complained about not being able to access /dev/sda6 which is the 
> root / partition of my system (xfs containing /boot, too).
> 
> After that wreckage I decided to try a new installation of beta3. So I 
> have no logs for the above problems.
> 
> Has anybody similar behaviour?
> 
> Regards,
>   Andreas
> 

-- 
Andreas Vetter
Fakultaet fuer Physik und Astronomie
Universitaet Wuerzburg              
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