[opensuse-factory] Disaster -- was No updates of any description to 11.2 (MS6)?
Short time ago I updated my (32-bit) 11.2 MS6 KDE installation using the "zypper up" command - which I concluded was the command I needed to run from the comments in the above-mentioned thread (to update from the factory repos). After some 3+ hours online and ~970MB of updates later what happens when I reboot? The normal, green, grub menu.lst screen appears showing me that the only selectable device I have to boot 11.2 with is....the Floppy. Nothing else, just Floppy. I use the Rescue option on the (11.1) DVD and I am informed that I have no Linux system installed. Suggestions about how to recover the already-installed oS would be greatly appreciated. BC -- "There are none so blind as those who will not see." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 05 September 2009 08:53:28 Basil Chupin wrote:
The normal, green, grub menu.lst screen appears showing me that the only selectable device I have to boot 11.2 with is....the Floppy. Nothing else, just Floppy.
I use the Rescue option on the (11.1) DVD and I am informed that I have no Linux system installed.
That's because it doesn't understand ext4, and you installed with ext4 as a file system.
Suggestions about how to recover the already-installed oS would be greatly appreciated.
The way I recovered my test system was to press escape on the boot screen to drop to text grub, then press c for command, then do root (hd0,0) kernel=/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 initrd=/boot/initrd boot That should bring up your system. Once it's up, start YaST and go to the boot loader configuration module, and tell it to create a new proposal. That will create a fully functioning grub menu Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 05 September 2009 09:15:05 I wrote:
root (hd0,0) kernel=/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 initrd=/boot/initrd boot
That should bring up your system.
Just to state the bleedin' obvious: naturally you need to replace the hd0,0 and sda2 in the above with the disk and partition that fits your system Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Anders Johansson wrote:
On Saturday 05 September 2009 09:15:05 I wrote:
root (hd0,0) kernel=/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 initrd=/boot/initrd boot
That should bring up your system.
Just to state the bleedin' obvious: naturally you need to replace the hd0,0 and sda2 in the above with the disk and partition that fits your system
Anders
Yes, of course. Many thanks Anders. I will attempt this solution later tonight and let you know the result. Much appreciated. BC -- "There are none so blind as those who will not see." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Anders Johansson wrote:
On Saturday 05 September 2009 09:15:05 I wrote:
root (hd0,0) kernel=/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 initrd=/boot/initrd boot
That should bring up your system.
Just to state the bleedin' obvious: naturally you need to replace the hd0,0 and sda2 in the above with the disk and partition that fits your system
Anders
As promised, I am now reporting on my attempt to resurrect the installation of 11.2 MS6. When I went to do what you suggested I remembered that I had a copy of the *System Rescue Disc* and, therefore, first used it to see if I could recover. I was successful. I mounted /dev/sda1, where I thought /boot was located. Using mc (midnight commander), I looked at menu.lst.old and saw that it was showing the right parameters, renamed it to menu.lst (to overwrite the rubbish one causing all the trouble after all the updates), and rebooted. I was then back in 11.2 MS6. Thank you once again for pointing me in the direction on how to regain my installation of 11.2. BC -- "There are none so blind as those who will not see." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Basil Chupin schreef:
I use the Rescue option on the (11.1) DVD and I am informed that I have no Linux system installed.
Suggestions about how to recover the already-installed oS would be greatly appreciated.
BC
Basil, I don't want to patronize, but another way is to start the installer (from your 11.1DVD) and go until you get the options to update or install new, and choose the other option to repair system. Then choose the expert option, next: boot installed system or os. You will get all your bootable linux-root partitions mentioned. Here you can pick the one you want. (Offcourse if the 'install a new bootloader' option doesn't work.) If the install you want to boot is 11.2, and it doesn't, you can boot 11.1.
From there you can open /boot/grub/menu.lst, to correct the entrances, with Alt+F2 kdesu kate.
(It might have been handy if you made a copy of this list into your ~/home, so you can copy and paste working entrances to the menu.lst; might be an option to do that right after your system is allright again...) If you have to write the entrances yourself, you can take the 11.1 ones, and replace the '1' with '2', look in /boot, to find the correct kernel- and initrd naming, for the case you have more kernels stored there, and replace the kernel- and initrd-number, and the partition number. After saving, everything should work fine again... Just reboot, and see what happens.. (this is always a surprise though when testing alpha's and beta's... ;) Good luck... -- Enjoy your time around, Oddball, aka M9. OS: Linux 2.6.27.19-3.2-default x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: oddball@AMD64x2-sfn1 Systeem: openSUSE 11.1 (x86_64) KDE: 4.2.1 (KDE 4.2.1) "release 103" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Oddball schreef:
From there you can open /boot/grub/menu.lst, to correct the entrances, with Alt+F2 kdesu kate.
probably there is an menu.list 'old' around there. You might have a look at the entrances there, and just replace the figures in kernel and initrd to the actual ones. (shown in /boot, as latest date vmlinuz and initrd..) But do not forget to first try to 'install a new bootloader' first, it is in the expert options on top of the list, if that works, you'll save yourself a lot of fuss... -- Enjoy your time around, Oddball, aka M9. OS: Linux 2.6.27.19-3.2-default x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: oddball@AMD64x2-sfn1 Systeem: openSUSE 11.1 (x86_64) KDE: 4.2.1 (KDE 4.2.1) "release 103" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Oddball wrote:
Basil Chupin schreef:
I use the Rescue option on the (11.1) DVD and I am informed that I have no Linux system installed.
Suggestions about how to recover the already-installed oS would be greatly appreciated.
BC
Basil,
I don't want to patronize, but another way is to start the installer (from your 11.1DVD) and go until you get the options to update or install new, and choose the other option to repair system. Then choose the expert option, next: boot installed system or os. You will get all your bootable linux-root partitions mentioned. Here you can pick the one you want.
Many thanks, Oddball, for your response. Greatly appreciated. And I have to apologise to you, and others, for being very slack in my description of what I did to try and boot into the installed system :-( . What I did/do is what you have suggested - except that I forget the actual names of the steps I make - unless I write them down, which I more often than not forget to do :-) . But see my response to Anders (earlier). I have recovered and got my 11.2 back so all is well. (That System Rescue Disc is something worth having lying around!) BC -- "There are none so blind as those who will not see." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Op 06-09-09 14:44, Basil Chupin schreef:
Oddball wrote:
Basil Chupin schreef:
I use the Rescue option on the (11.1) DVD and I am informed that I have no Linux system installed.
Suggestions about how to recover the already-installed oS would be greatly appreciated.
BC
Basil,
I don't want to patronize, but another way is to start the installer (from your 11.1DVD) and go until you get the options to update or install new, and choose the other option to repair system. Then choose the expert option, next: boot installed system or os. You will get all your bootable linux-root partitions mentioned. Here you can pick the one you want.
Many thanks, Oddball, for your response. Greatly appreciated.
And I have to apologise to you, and others, for being very slack in my description of what I did to try and boot into the installed system :-( .
What I did/do is what you have suggested - except that I forget the actual names of the steps I make - unless I write them down, which I more often than not forget to do :-) .
But see my response to Anders (earlier). I have recovered and got my 11.2 back so all is well. (That System Rescue Disc is something worth having lying around!)
BC
NP, glad you made it back! ;) -- Enjoy your time around, Oddball (M9.) (Now or never...) OS: Linux 2.6.31-rc8-5-desktop x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: oddball@AMD64x2-SFN1 Systeem: openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 6 (x86_64) KDE: 4.3.1 (KDE 4.3.1) "release 1" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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