Hi, On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Hans-Peter Holler wrote:
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.
Surely, "forever young" LILO can manage multiple kernels. But the recent OpenSUSE/SLES/SLED mechanisms will delete your kernel before installing the new. So you have to take your hands on at the right time, or YOU/zypper will fuck you off. This behaviour is contrary to the YaST philosophy - after just you have reached to feel the comfort of YaST, it will kick you into the ass. Viele Grüße Eberhard Mönkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org) -- Eberhard Mönkeberg Arbeitsgruppe IT-Infrastruktur E-Mail: emoenke@gwdg.de Tel.: +49 (0)551 201-1551 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG) Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen URL: http://www.gwdg.de E-Mail: gwdg@gwdg.de Tel.: +49 (0)551 201-1510 Fax: +49 (0)551 201-2150 Geschäftsführer: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Neumair Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Dipl.-Kfm. Markus Hoppe Sitz der Gesellschaft: Göttingen Registergericht: Göttingen Handelsregister-Nr. B 598 -------------------------------------------------------------------------