On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 18:30 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:

All,

I've got a vmware VM I haven't used a few weeks. This is a Win7 laptop, but the VM is openSUSE 12.2.

When I try to boot it tells me it can't load the initial ram disk because it has to have a kernel loaded first.

I've attached a screenprint.

I've got other openSUSE VM's on this laptop, but I don't have a openSUSE ISO / CD / DVD handy.

What's a good way to fix this? If I download the network install CD, will it have a repair option?

fyi: Nothing overly valuable on VM, I just have it configured to do packaging work, so it will save me some hassle not to have trash it.

Greg

I might be wrong, since it's probably over a decade since I've used any distro's stock kernel... But this could be your booting your kernel directly, using a journal FS - without an initrd.img ? I always build that stuff into the kernel so it never happens. But as I said, I could be wrong. Either way, you'll probably need a CD/USB image to investigate.

* Patrick Shanahan [12-10-12 19:15]:

* Greg Freemyer [12-10-12 18:32]:

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I've got a vmware VM I haven't used a few weeks. This is a Win7 laptop, but the VM is openSUSE 12.2.

When I try to boot it tells me it can't load the initial ram disk because it has to have a kernel loaded first.

I've attached a screenprint.

I've got other openSUSE VM's on this laptop, but I don't have a openSUSE ISO / CD / DVD handy.

What's a good way to fix this? If I download the network install CD, will it have a repair option?

brb, have net iso that I can boot in a vb window and check as I cannot remember..... old-timers-condition (or Dos XXs).

I booted net-204 and it does indeed have a "rescue" option. I'm guessing but seems like you need to make initrd as present or missing does not access your kernel. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 1:39 AM, Per Jessen wrote:

Greg Freemyer wrote:

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All,

I've got a vmware VM I haven't used a few weeks. This is a Win7 laptop, but the VM is openSUSE 12.2.

When I try to boot it tells me it can't load the initial ram disk because it has to have a kernel loaded first.

I think it's more significant that it says it can't find the kernel. Is the disk-image (or whatever you're booting from) intact?

I finally got back to this because another VMware instance had the same thing happen. The second VM died immediately after "zypper patch; reboot". I probably hadn't installed patches on the second VM in months. Anyway, I'm in rescue and I can see that grub2 is in use and it is still pointing at an older kernel. I'd just as soon go back to grub since I know it better. What are the commands to revert to grub and have it auto-config itself? Thanks Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org