Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (341 mails)

["Hans-Peter Holler" <holler@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jumping in late,
> > So providing the kernel that worked is required.  Updating zypper
> > alone is not a solution!
> > Presumably someone who runs 11.0 actually backs up their system?
Never did a kernel update via "yast online update", "zypper up" or ...
Everytime I was happy to do this with a _TEST_ machine: rpm -ihv <new-kernel>, 
hoping mkinitrd, perl-bootloader and what else is able to do crappy things is 
doing this right. If all goes the right way you'll have a new grub entry at 
boot with you can test. Remember: _TEST_ machine! If all seems good, boot into 
the new kernel and feel free to "rpm -e <old kernel>".
> That would not help.
> A "native" OpenSUSE/SLES/SLED system just has one kernel to boot.
> And if it does't, you won't reach your backups with ease.
No, even with old LILO you can manage to choose a kernel image, initrd and 
parameters to boot an older (the one that's present before the update, see 
above) kernel. And this should enable you to reach your backups and restore 
them.

my 1 ct

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