Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4288 mails)

["Joe Morris (NTM)" <Joe_Morris@xxxxxxx>]

On 10/30/2007 11:05 PM, Stan Goodman wrote:
> That means that what I have to do is to get into YaST2 and redirect the loader
> to where it should be, or equivalently to give a command-line instruction that
> will do the same thing. I don't know how to do either of those things, and the
> books I have here don't tell me.
>
> I have never used the Rescue entry into SuSE. I have tried to go into it, and
> am confronted with a demand for an ID and PW. I tried "root" as ID, but I have
> no idea at all what it will accept as a PW.
>
> What's a reasonable password for Rescue? 
Your root password.  You said this was an upgrade didn't you?
> How can I find how to select the
> loader location?
>   
In Yast2 boot loader, or etc/sysconfig Editor.

In case you have never done this, you would log into the rescue system, then
mount the root partition of the drive, i.e. mount /dev/md0 /mnt
(Not sure if these are still needed in 10.3 or not)
mount -o bind /proc /mnt/proc
mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev
mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys
cd mnt
chroot /mnt
That will put you into your old system as root.  To run Yast2 ncurses
mode, run yast.
to exit out of your change rooted system, type exit.  Then shutdown -r
now to reboot.  HTH.

-- 
Joe Morris
Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64





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