[opensuse] Re: Last kernel update

Barnacle Bill the Sailor wrote:

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birre wrote:

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On 2007-03-20 03:26, David Bolt wrote:

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On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, John Bowling wrote:-

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It changed /boot/grup/menu.lst to have only the floppy and the new kernel listed. Everything else was gone, and stayed gone for a couple of reboots.

I went back, copied my old menu.lst back and edited the new kernel number into and it was fine.

Why didn't it set it back to include what I had there on the first reboot after the the update? What was there was all created by Yast the previous time.

The update is broken in some cases.

From the SuSE-security-announce mailing list[0]:

<quote> We also had reports of the update breaking the bootloader configuration, and apologize for the inconveniences caused. We are investigating those problems and hope to release an update to fix the bootloader handling code.

If you are manually adapting /boot/grub/menu.lst, please review this file after the update. </quote>

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URL:http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Mar/0004.html

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Regards, David Bolt

I have opensuse 10.1 , opensuse 10.2 64-bit and opensuse 10.2 32-bit in my boot menu , and had to repair all of them by hand from the rescue boot :-(

Something is broken for sure. But now I got the chance to learn how grub really works, so it was an very useful bug :-)

/birre

Hmmm, nary a problem on my machine. (Crossing fingers, and knocking wood)

seems to be a random error or related to certain configurations. My boot menu is quite ok, but in wrong order at startup (default kernel is at 3rd position, failsafe at 1st).

Eric Have you tried the failsafe startup. I had some problems with menu.lst and got the main ones figured out, moved kernel to ist position and failsafe last. Problem is fail safe boots to the kde desktop unless I type init 3 on

Eric wrote: the command line of the logon screen. Does your work correctly (boot to terminal). I tried command from old menu.lst and changed kernel info but it still goes to kde desktop. Could you post your failsafe info if it works correctly. Mine is: ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### title Failsafe -- opensuse 10.2 root (hd1,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-0.1-default root=/dev/hdb5 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=power-off acpi=off noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3 initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18.8-0.1-default Thanks -- Russ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org