Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3135 mails)

[ken <gebser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/11/2007 04:19 PM somebody named Marcus Meissner wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 02:04:13PM -0400, Mike wrote:
>> On Saturday 10 March 2007 06:46, Marcus Meissner wrote:
>>> 
>> ....
>>
>> The menu.lst that was written out after the update is basically blank, with 
>> entries that have no information (no kernel, root, etc.).  This persists even 
>> if I go to yast-bootloader and ask it to propose a new configuration.
> 
> This is something we have not yet seen this bug do.
> 
> Are /boot/vmlinuz and /boot/initrd still there?
> 
>> I tried falling back to the install kernel, but have the same problem with a 
>> broken menu.lst.  Does anyone know what package is used to compose and write 
>> out the menu.lst file?
> 
> perl-Bootloader

This would seem to be a good argument for the kernel upgrade to create
sufficient backups so that the previous kernel could be used.  Better
yet would be to put the previous kernel into the grub/lilo menu as a
second boot option.


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