Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (626 mails)

[JP Rosevear <jpr@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 17:28 +0000, Andrew Wafaa wrote:
> Evening all,
>
> As we're all in one big happy community, tis time for some knowledge
> sharing (Appologies if this is known, but for a few of us earlier
> today it wasn't) :)
>
> With Alpha 3 and also upgrading to latest Factory, initrd get's lost
> in the process - an issue that is being sorted out I believe, for
> reference there is Bug #372688 [0].
>
> The workaround that Vincent came up with and I have verified it on two
> machines is as follows:
>
> 1. Boot your system from CD/DVD into "Rescue Mode"
> 2. mount /dev/sdaX /mnt && mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc && mount
> --bind /sys /mnt/sys && mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev && chroot /mnt
> 3. mkinitrd -k /boot/vmlinuz-<kernel_version> -i
> /boot/initrd-<kernel_version>  (Please replace <kernel_version> with
> your actual version, as of 1730Z 20Mar2008 mine was
> 2.6.25-rc5-git3-6-pae)
> 4. Reboot

Also if you get Error 23 you might try editing the grub entry so that
root is something like root(hd0,0) rather than something like:
root (/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_HM160HCS12TJD0PB99656-part2,1)

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr@xxxxxxxxxx>
Novell, Inc.

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