Ken Schneider - openSUSE said the following on 29/04/2011 9:56 AM:
On 04/29/2011 09:23 AM, Anton J Aylward pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
Robert Schweikert said the following on 29/04/2011 9:04 AM:
On 04/29/2011 08:55 AM, Anton J Aylward wrote:
I've just tried an update with an 11.4 DVD and the end result is that I have NO KERNEL Boot From Hard Disk goes straight to grub since there is no menu
What's your setup, RAID? 32 bit? 64 bit? Any error messages?
Details are always helpful ;)
Its a laptop. Only one disk. 32 bit.
If there are any error messages before the grub prompt they went by too fast.
I've used a live CD. The /boot/grub/menu.lst is empty and there are no kernel files or maps or any such in /boot
Surely a rescue would be much the same 32/64?
Since there is no "rescue" on the current versions you will need to go through the install process again, but instead of installing new choose upgrade and follow the prompts. Hopefully this time it will install the boot loader properly for you.
Some progress. Using the 'rescue' shell, I copies in a basic kernel, enough to boot. Stuff was all there, enough to bring up networking and run zypper on a repository I entered after looking it up with a browser on a borrowed windows machine. Then installed kernel; -pae and -desktop The machine now boots but X won't come up. before you tell me to look for errors in in /var/log/Xorg.0.log THERE AREN'T ANY All I can find is a line at the end of /bar/log/kdm.log that reads No protocol specified kdmgreet: cannot connect to xserver 0: startx (as root) produces prodigous amounts of error messages that seem to have little to do with X and lots to do with everything else like MySQL and akonadai and ending in a segfault -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org