Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (257 mails)

[John Beranek <john@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I reasonably recently installed openSUSE Factory on a test VM - I 
believe a little bit before "Milestone 1".

The system was running fine, and I decided to update to the latest. Did 
a 'zypper dup', and then rebooted.

However, the system would then not boot.

The first obvious error is:

mkdir: cannot create directory `/dev/mapper`: File exists

Following this are:

udevd-event[271]: device node '/dev/mapper/control' already exists, link 
to '/dev/device-mapper' will not overwrite it
Boot logging started on /dev/char/../tty1(/dev/console) at Wed May 20 
16:39:41 2000
resume device /dev/system/swap not found (ignoring)
Waiting for decide /dev/system/root to appear: 
...................................Could not find /dev/system/root.

So, it's failing to find the LVs...but what can I do to restore booting 
of this system? I've booted in a live CD, and all the data seems to be 
there, but can't quite figure what I might be able to do. Considered 
running mkinitrd or something like that, but can't seem to get into the 
right environment to run that successfully.

Can anyone help?

John.

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John Beranek                         To generalise is to be an idiot.
http://redux.org.uk/                                 -- William Blake