https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=758570 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=758570#c0 Summary: todays (3.1.10) kernel-desktop update renders machine unbootable: hangs at "GRUB " blinking cursor Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.1 Version: Final Platform: i686 OS/Version: openSUSE 12.1 Status: NEW Severity: Critical Priority: P5 - None Component: Kernel AssignedTo: kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: abittner@abittner.de QAContact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.162 Safari/535.19 suse boot trouble has caused me countless country trips to some opensuse machines needing to manually fix stuff that is upcoming via simple updates delivered via yast or zypper up today i applied another zypper ref and zypper up, there was a kernel-desktop update amongst those, and some udev and some other libraries. now this machine is not booting any more, it just sits at "GRUB " after the POST. i tried chroot and looked at menu.lst and menu.lst.old but i didnt really find any trouble there. mkinitrd fails for me as i am probably lacking some chroot parameters to these special paths and files, it complains that mtab (points somehwere in proc or so) cant be accessed. maybe someone can give me a lead on this and more specially, whats wrong with this kernel update? :( it came from 3.1.9......, so this machine is a normal 12.1 x86 installation and was up to date yesterday or some days before, and i only zypper up-ed those offered patches. nothing fancy i have a separate /boot partition and / and /var and /opt they are reiser and i think boot is ext3, something like that. i copied these names from the suse download server but the zypper/history file shows that kernel-desktop rpms got applied, i dont know if all of them though or which are applicable to my system. kernel-desktop-devel-3.1.10-1.9.1.i586.rpm 20-Apr-2012 15:18 2.0M Details kernel-desktop-base-3.1.10-1.9.1.i586.rpm 20-Apr-2012 15:17 13M Details kernel-desktop-3.1.10-1.9.1.i586.rpm 20-Apr-2012 15:17 37M Details any more details on how to fix this? this is really annoying. it took me more than two hours to reach this location and machine just because of a kernel mess :(( Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.