Andreas Jaeger aj-at-suse.de |suse-amd64| wrote:
"Stephen Williams" <1mc9i5i02@sneakemail.com> writes:
Since even the .installed kernel didn't boot, but I was able to but things back together with an rpm -Uvh --oldpackage k_smp-*.rpm, I wonder if the modules were not installed/depmoded properly by the patch.
Or mkinitrd not called? But this is done via the rpm automatically.
It was called.
Can you try again with the new kernel and write down where it fails? I need some more details...
It crashed very early. After grub loaded it, the screen went dark, then within 5 seconds the computer rebooted. I was unable to see any boot messages from the new kernel. The unfortunate part about the kernel rpms is that the module set is not versioned with the kernel (i.e. there is no -249 modules directory) so it is a little tricky setting up a backup kernel for when it fails. -- Steve Williams "The woods are lovely, dark and deep. steve at icarus.com But I have promises to keep, http://www.icarus.com and lines to code before I sleep, http://www.picturel.com And lines to code before I sleep."