Hello, Am Freitag, 25. Oktober 2013 schrieb Felix Miata:
Apparently I started HTTP installing while factory-snapshot on mirrors in inconsistent state. Most missing packages are non-critical, easily fixed later. However, the kernel YaST wants, kernel-desktop-3.11.6-2.1.i686.rpm, is older than what's available, kernel-desktop-3.11.6-3.1.i686.rpm. Is there a way before rebooting I can get the available kernel installed from tty2, instead of having to start all over again after having just spent 90+ minutes doing 99% of an installation? bash doesn't find zypper or mkinitrd or dracut, but does find rpm. Mount output does not list sda6 target / mounted, but when I try to mount the target anywhere, mount reports it is already mounted or busy. How to find out where mounted?
Try cat /proc/mounts instead of mount (which might give you an outdated /etc/mtab). I didn't do a fresh installation for a long time, but I'd guess the root partition is mounted at /mnt If this fails, try umount /dev/sda6 - that this might confuse the installation system. OTOH, you have a broken system already, so... ;-) (well, missing kernel is not that broken, but booting will of course fail)
I was able to wget the kernel rpm after mounting a non-root partition.
rpm --root /mnt -i kernel*rpm (adjust /mnt to the mountpoint of sda6) If everything else fails, restart the installation and choose "upgrade" instead of fresh install. If you are lucky, YaST won't re-install the already existing packages. Another way is to boot a recovery system, mount sda6 there, mount --bind /proc, /dev and /sys (not sure if all are needed) and chroot to the mountpoint. From there, you can install a kernel with zypper. Then check your bootloader config with YaST (just to be sure) and you should be able to boot the installed system. Gruß Christian Boltz -- I've already burnt my fingers with upstream patches ... now let's see whats happen and let's wait that my fingers will cool down. [Werner Fink in https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=752422] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-testing+owner@opensuse.org