On 10/10/13 07:59, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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El 2013-10-09 a las 12:17 +0200, C escribió:
This manual install route has got at least one acquaintance of mine into a disaster with openSUSE. He searched on his own and found the manual install. He was told yes this is the "right way" to install the driver so he followed the steps. He didn't know what he was doing, but can follow instructions and got it all installed without any real issues. A few days later a new kernel came down the pipe and splat... his system wouldn't boot up with graphical anymore. He didn't know what to do to fix it (he's new to Linux), and with no way to check the internet for solutions, he reinstalled from scratch.
Oh :-(
Did he not have multiversion active for the kernel? He should have been able to boot the previous kernel from grub menu.
As far as I am concerned this makes no difference from personal experience. When a new kernel is installed the grub menu tries to boot the system with the new kernel and you don't have a choice of booting with anything else - even trying the "Safe Mode" results in the same process. Having multversion active in sysconfig only means that the old kernels are not removed from /boot. If you look at your /boot you will see that while you may a hundred kernel versions sitting there, the @intrd and @vmlinuz are pointing at the latest installed kernel. [pruned] BC -- "If you read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." - Haruki Murakami -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org