Hi Marcus, Am Dienstag, 3. März 2009 schrieb Marcus Meissner:
In my case (two mail servers) the machines could not reboot any more after installing that update. The menu.lst entry for the root device was cut after a "#". Maybe one script "thougth" it was a comment.
Example: root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SAreca_ARC-1210-VOL#000000000083264759-part3
became
root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SAreca_ARC-1210-VOL
Easy to repair, but not good.
I guess the parse/rewrite code does not expect # in a name (but as comment delimiter).
Did you create this volume identifier?
No, I didn't. These machines were updated from 10.2 to 11.1 - the old entry was /dev/sda3 there.
I cced you on the bugreport for this I just did.
OK, thanks
BTW: Why there is no fallback entry in menu.lst for the last working kernel? I believe I asked for this feature a long time ago. It's that simple... And why not at least a copy of the last working menu.lst itself for reference?
The last set of kernels can be left installed by editing /etc/zypp/zypp.conf
(assuming kernel-default is used):
multiversion = kernel-default,kernel-default-base,kernel-default-extra
Excellent. Where to find more of these valuable hints (except man zypper)? ;-) Joe -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Joachim Schoenberg PHONE: +49 30 20377 374 Paul-Drude-Institut fuer FAX: +49 30 20377 201 Festkoerperelektronik Berlin ----------------------------------------------------------------