On 06/03/13 19:30, C wrote:
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 7:07 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
I then installed kernel 3.8.2-1 on oS 12.3 RC2 (sda5) - and now I cannot boot.
All the parameters in the bootloader(s) appear to be OK except when I go to boot into "safe mode" in 12.3 (sda5) I get the error message:
Invalid Magic number.
What the f*** is "Invalid Magic number"?! *WHAT* number?! Of all the lame-brained, inane, stupid, meaningless error messages to have ever existed this one MUST take the cake! I think this beats whatever Windows ever managed to come with - and that's saying something. Magic number dates way way back into the medieval perios of Unix. Originally some variable that was nicknamed "magic number". It now is generally used to reference a valid filetype or filesystem type.
There is a fairly comprehensive explanation of it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming)
I don't have a good suggestion for recovery - guessing... something broke when installing the new kernel. vmlinuz is wrong? the new kernel image is invalid? Is it only on 12.3RC2 or all installs?
Thanks, C. I'll read the wikipedia entry later - I've had enough of searching the net for an explanation (but, strangely enough, the wikipedia entry did not turn up; obviously an incorrect search string on my part). And Yes, it is only on the RC2 installation as I mention in my post. Using the Compare File option in mc I did compare vmlinuz between 12.2 and RC2 and they are *identical*. The only file which was different was intird but even after copying over the one for 12.2 over to RC2 the same error msg comes up. The only way I can see out of this is to either- boot into RC2 and re-install the kernel; or re-install RC2 But with RC2 all there and functioning except for the grub2 boot process I would rather not re-install unless absolutely necessary. BC -- Using openSUSE 12.2 x86_64 KDE 4.10.00 & kernel 3.8.2-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX550Ti 1GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org