It seems to me that you installed only the kernel, but not the necessary modules, which come with the new kernel.
I am not sure how to get home to mount. I know how to boot to runlevel 3, that is how I found out that there was no home for that kernel. What is your experience level with linux?
Never great enough to figure out how to fix all the linux problems without help. The ones I know how to fix I don't ask the list for help on.
Keep in mind that the (final) 2.6.37 only has been released last week by Linus. Altough there were development stages before, don't consider this one quite stable yet under openSUSE.
Here is what you are going to have to find out: Did you install all the corresponding kernel modules with the new kernel?
I hired yast and zypper to do that for me. The only modules I ever had to reinstall after a kernel upgrade were the ethernet driver and module, but that was on Opensuse 11.1. Since then the driver for the nic has been included in the kernel on opensuse 11.2 and .3. Anyways, I think that you are right, yast didn't install the modules, see below.
"Unable to cannocalize /lib/modules/2.6.37/default/system/I..."
Seems to me you didn't. Don't think to lightly about this modules. Modules are drivers and they are even needed to mount your file systems.
Anyway, you are looking for a way to get out of this shit, so try this:
When you see your GRUB screen, go to you entry and type in the command line: "init 3". This boots the system in runlevel 3.
When the system is booted, log in as root.
Issue command "mount", it will print all mounted partions. Issue command cat /etc/fstab, it will print all that should have been mounted.
Probably you will find your Home partition somewhere in there. If you don't know your home partition, try "fdisk -l" this will print all partitions. If your system is still quite standard, home will be on the primary disk and it will be the biggest partition. (Eg. /dev/sdaX, where X is the partition number)
Now try "mount /dev/sdaX /home"
#mount /dev/sda7 /home mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext4' #mount -a only /root gets mounted, not /home #ls -R /lib/modules/2.6.37/default ls: cannot access /lib/modules/2.6.37/default: no such file or directory #modprobe ext4.ko FATAL: Module ext4.ko not found What's next? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org