On 26.08.2022 22:31, Achim Gratz wrote:
I have an old AthlonXP system that I decomissioned three years ago. It turned out later that just an SATA cable needed replacement. Today I tried to update to the latest Tumbleweed using zypper dup, which initially went well (if slowly), but then it hit the installation of filesystem, complained about missing lua triggers and admonished me that I would need a rescue system. Nothing in /usr/bin works anymore, although the (old) kernel boots until the first time it needs a shell for something.
I do have a rescue system on USB from that time (actually a net install for Tumbleweed that I used to install the replacement system with), but it runs into trouble: the available shell prompt does not seem to offer a chroot command nor zypper
If "available" means "whatever is available on Net image" that is expected - Net image only contains enough to download the actual installation system including rescue boot.
and clicking past the language prompt will blink caps and scroll lock on the keyboard for about a minute and then reboots (perhaps it tried to mount the botched filesystem?). I'm not
That sounds like kernel panic. You do not really need openSUSE medium, you can use anything (Knoppix, SystemRescueCD, ...) to access Tumbleweed root. Or use full openSUSE DVD.
even sure a chroot would work since the filesystem isn't set up… Preferrably I could somehow use zypper (or rpm) to use the already downloaded package and target the failed installation (with --root /mnt or something like that). Is there a way to do that?
Regards, Achim.