On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 13:17 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Mark Misulich <munguanaweza@gmail.com> [01-10-11 06:55]:
I downloaded the Nvidia driver binary from the Nvidia website last evening, and saved it to my home folder. Then, I booted the 2.6.37 kernel last evening to runlevel 3. After that I tried to cd to the place in my home folder where I saved the Nvidia driver so I could use the run command you gave me to install the driver in that kernel. But I couldn't cd to the driver.
Do you have more than *one* openSUSE operating systine installed? Sounds like the kernel is not in the same system.
No, just one Opensuse system installed.
From your current system, 2.6.34 kernel, do from the commandline: rpm -qa kernel* and provide results.
Believe it or not, it doesn't post anything.
I played around with commands, and found that there was no home directory present with that kernel. So the upgrade to the 2.6.37 kernel went bad.
?? do from the cl: ls -la /home
From the 2.6.34 kernel:
total 28 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2010-10-08 22:32 . drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 2011-01-11 09:46 .. drwx------ 2 root root 16384 2010-10-08 20:27 lost+found drwxr-xr-x 61 lxmark users 4096 2011-01-11 10:49 lxmark
From the 2.6.37 kernel:
I still have the 2.6.34 kernel entry in grub that I can use to boot the operating system, which happens to be what I am using now. Now I am wondering what is next? Why hasn't this upgrade to a new kernel worked for the last few months, and how do I get it to upgrade sucessfully?
yet to be determined :^)
When I run the command #zypper dup in the 2.6.34 kernel it shows that there is an upgrade to the kernel available to the 2.6.37 kernel. I haven't pulled the trigger on it yet, because I will need to back up my home folder in case I end up ruining things and having to reinstall. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org