Richard wrote:

On Saturday 26 March 2005 11:21 pm, steve nutt wrote:

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Hello:

I am not having a good evening! The mail server after kernel upgrade with yast2 will not boot. It stops shortly after the grub boot loader splash screen. I theorize it is probably a grub problem, but I know nothing about this. Can someone tell me what I should do? Where should I go for help on this one. This is our production mail server.

Any help is appreciated.

Steve

Hi Steve, Although I'm far from an expert, I have made enuf mistakes to give you a few ideas.

First I would boot from the dvd and start the install routine. In a couple of screens you will be given the options to Install, Repair , or boot from the harddrive. Select boot from the harddrive and see if it comes up ok, If it does, then go into Yast and let it set up Grub.

That's the shorthand version.

I would have to boot the dvd to give you more explicit instructions. The nice thing is it wont do anything re: installation for several screens and would give you ample warning to abort.

Richard

A good policy is to backup/rename the original kernel in /boot and add lines in menu.lst for it so you can boot the original if anything goes wrong. It's nice and safest to have an immediate fallback as you can inadvertently mess up stuff like initrd. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Large Computer Systems Specialist - Retired Hamradio Callsign G3VBV and Keen Private Pilot Aeroplanes, Linux, Computers and Cricket my major passions ===== LINUX USED HERE, A Microsoft-free Computing Environment ====

On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 00:15 -0600, Richard wrote:

On Saturday 26 March 2005 11:21 pm, steve nutt wrote:

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Hello:

I am not having a good evening! The mail server after kernel upgrade with yast2 will not boot. It stops shortly after the grub boot loader splash screen. I theorize it is probably a grub problem, but I know nothing about this. Can someone tell me what I should do? Where should I go for help on this one. This is our production mail server.

Any help is appreciated.

Steve

Hi Steve, Although I'm far from an expert, I have made enuf mistakes to give you a few ideas.

First I would boot from the dvd and start the install routine. In a couple of screens you will be given the options to Install, Repair , or boot from the harddrive. Select boot from the harddrive and see if it comes up ok, If it does, then go into Yast and let it set up Grub.

That's the shorthand version.

I would have to boot the dvd to give you more explicit instructions. The nice thing is it wont do anything re: installation for several screens and would give you ample warning to abort.

I had a simular problem after a kernel upgrade via YOU and found that running mk_initrd fixed my problem. Shouldn't have to but it did do something with the splash setup in initrd. Hope it helps. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 * Only reply to the list please* "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge