here's something that may be worth a try... 1. boot disk 1 of your install set, and select installation (yes installation, don't chicken out yet) This will boot using the KERNEL ON THE DISK 2. when it prompts for the setup language, hit Abort It will give you a message that an error has occured, hit ok, and then take you thru a couple of menus 3. select Start installation or system>Boot installed system>Hard Drive, then choose the partition to boot from What this does is boot YOUR system using the rescue kernel on the disk, rather than the "broken" kernel on your hard drive. I have used this successfully to recover Novell's Linux Desktop (built on Suse 9.2), that had downloaded an incomplete set of kernel updates. (Exactly the same symptoms, getting dumped out to that prompt after "not found" 'ing hardware.) Fingers crossed Vaughan Powered by Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 - RC1 Powered by Groupwise7
Boyd Lynn Gerber
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I started a SUSE Linux 10.1 upgrade from 10.0 on saturday. We had a bad weather and a car hit a power pole. My power was out for over 6 hours. I had just started and upgrade when the system died. The upgrade had installed linux-2.6.16.13-4. I have a linux-2.6.16.13-4-obj but no linux-2.6.16.13-4. When I boot the system I get ... waiting for /dev/had5 to appear: .... resume device /dev/hda5 not found (Ignoring). waiting for /dev/had6 to appear: .... not found exiting to (/bin/sh).