Re: [opensuse] openSuSe 10.3 hangs after kernel update
Thanks Jan for all your god suggestions! While I did not have a live DVD of 10.3 on hand, I did have the regular install DVD. Since I had a "spare" partition on my harddisk, I just installed a new fresh 10.3 on that then mounted my original root partition and copied the kernel files there and update grub's menu.lst. The machine booted fine and I did a kernel update to the "fixed" kernel and things are back to normal again. One thing I have noticed, is any time I install a release of (open)SUSE alongside another one, so that I have multiple versions installed, grub is installed again and I have all these grubs pointing to other installations or other grubs on the various partitions. I can clean it all up after the installations so there is only one grub, but I was wondering if there was an easy way to have just one "master" grub updated no matter how many other verions one installed on their machine? Vahe ----- Original Message ---- From: Jan Ritzerfeld <suse@mailinglists.jan.ritzerfeld.net> To: opensuse@opensuse.org Sent: Saturday, February 9, 2008 1:05:05 AM Subject: Re: [opensuse] openSuSe 10.3 hangs after kernel update Am Freitag, 8. Februar 2008 schrieb Carlos E. R.:
The Thursday 2008-02-07 at 09:32 -0800, Vahe Avedissian wrote:
I booted from the 64b installation DVD and chose boot installed system,
and that only tried to boot the "bad" kernel (i.e. system hangs with
same errors).
No, you need to start the live system in the rescue dvd, mount your root
filesystem, and chown to it. Too bad, I hoped that there is still the possibility to boot the installed system with the original kernel.
As somebody else wrote (Anders Johansson):
[mount --bind] I know, that was the reason to let Vahe first try it the easy way. BTW, there is a bug report about the "missing" documentation of the rescue process when using a dynamic /dev: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=293691 Gruß Jan -- Don't force it, get a larger hammer. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2008-02-09 at 10:31 -0800, Vahe Avedissian wrote:
Thanks Jan for all your god suggestions!
While I did not have a live DVD of 10.3 on hand, I did have the regular install DVD. Since I had a "spare" partition on my harddisk, I just installed a new fresh 10.3 on that then mounted my original root partition and copied the kernel files there and update grub's menu.lst. The machine booted fine and I did a kernel update to the "fixed" kernel and things are back to normal again.
I always keep a second small installation in a separate partition, for emergencies.
One thing I have noticed, is any time I install a release of (open)SUSE alongside another one, so that I have multiple versions installed, grub is installed again and I have all these grubs pointing to other installations or other grubs on the various partitions. I can clean it all up after the installations so there is only one grub, but I was wondering if there was an easy way to have just one "master" grub updated no matter how many other verions one installed on their machine?
Better let each install do it's own grub into its root or boot partition, not the mbr. That way they don't collide. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHrfdYtTMYHG2NR9URAvFCAJ0fha4CdZottgHoYZaNsdQDAWSBiwCeIwwd +tpSGcGvT1b2fsd6jhj7vb0= =U5rE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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