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[Vahe Avedissian <vyav@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes,

That is what I plan to do moving forward. I managed to restore my system and 
things look
good again.

It is unsettling to know an honest/innocent yast kernel update can leave your 
machine unuseable
unless you take such precautions and save at least one known safe and working 
kernel version.

Vahe


----- Original Message ----
From: Rajko M. <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: opensuse@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2008 7:12:42 PM
Subject: Re: [opensuse] openSuSe 10.3 hangs after kernel update


On 
Thursday 
07 
February 
2008 
06:33:20 
pm 
Carlos 
E. 
R. 
wrote:
>
The 
Thursday 
2008-02-07 
at 
09:32 
-0800, 
Vahe 
Avedissian 
wrote:
>
I 
booted 
from 
the 
64b 
installation 
DVD 
and 
chose 
boot 
installed 
system,
>
and 
that 
only 
tried 
to 
boot 
the 
"bad" 
kernel 
(i.e. 
system 
hangs 
with 
same
>
errors).
>
No, 
you 
need 
to 
start 
the 
live 
system 
in 
the 
rescue 
dvd, 
mount 
your 
root
>
filesystem, 
and 
chown 
to 
it.
>
As 
somebody 
else 
wrote 
(Anders 
Johansson):
>
] 
In 
the 
past 
few 
releases, 
you 
can't 
just 
do 
a 
chroot 
from 
the 
rescue
>
] 
system. 
You 
have 
to 
(assuming 
the 
root 
partition 
is 
mounted 
on 
/mnt)
>
]
>
] 
mount 
-o 
bind 
/proc 
/mnt/proc
>
] 
mount 
-o 
bind 
/sys 
/mnt/sys
>
] 
mount 
-o 
bind 
/dev 
/proc/dev
>
]
>
] 
then 
you 
can 
do 
the 
chroot
>
Once 
you 
do 
the 
chroot, 
you 
can 
fire 
up 
yast 
and 
force 
a 
reinstall 
of 
the
>
kernel.
>
In 
theory, 
the 
automatic 
rescue 
thing 
should 
work, 
but... 
:-?
>
Is 
there 
a 
way 
to 
configure 
yast 
to 
not 
delete 
an 
old 
kernel 
when 
a 
new
>
one 
is 
installed?
>
No.

The 
easiest 
way 
for 
me 
is 
to 
copy 
old 
kernel 
modules 
in 
/lib/modules 
to 
safe 
place, 
the 
same 
with 
/boot 
and 
restore 
what 
I 
want 
after 
update 
and 
before 
reboot. 
Add 
old 
kernel 
to 
/boot.grub/menu.lst 
and 
than 
reboot. 
I 
actually 
have 
symlinks 
vmlinuz-old 
and 
initrd-old 
so 
I 
update 
them 
insted 
of 
menu.lst. 
Than 
everybody 
is 
happy, 
YaST 
has 
new 
kernel 
and 
I 
have 
old. 


-- 
Regards, 
Rajko.
See 
http://en.opensuse.org/Portal
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