On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 11:28:58AM +0100, Marcus Meissner wrote:
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 03:21:07PM +0100, Marcus Meissner wrote:
Hi folks,
Like some of you noted the 9.2 kernels RPMs are not there anymore, even though they are listed in the advisory.
This is due us receiving reports where the Yast Online Update updating this kernel made the machine fail to boot.
The reason is that a script is no longer creating the vmlinuz and initrd symlinks as is required for successful booting.
We are preparing updated fixed packages for this problem and will be releasing them hopefully within the next day(s).
We have released fixed 9.2 kernel packages, available either from Yast Online Update or via the URLs below.
The following only affects SUSE Linux 9.2. We received additional reports of breakage if you have additionaly the UserMode Linux Kernel package "kernel-um" installed. In this case the system initrd will be created from "kernel-um" and not from "kernel-default" or "kernel-smp" As workaround: - If you do not need the kernel-um package, deinstall it using: rpm -e kernel-um and recreate the system initird by running: mkinitrd before rebooting. - if you need the kernel-um package, restore the symlink using: ln -sf /boot/initrd-2.6.8-24.10-default /boot/initrd (replace -default by the kerneltyp you use, detectable by: rpm -qa|grep kernel- which will be either "default", "smp" or "bigsmp".) after installing the updated packages and before booting the new kernel. Ciao, Marcus