On Friday 24 December 2004 12:40, Gerry Gavigan wrote:
You can repair your system using the install disk repair to downgrade the kernel. I was about to post here myself - I am so annoyed. Further details on website
Better (because you end up with the latest kernel) (and I requote it because I hit the same problem this morning, and so will be many, many other people, I imagine ...): On Friday 24 December 2004 10:04, Anders Johansson wrote:
From the rescue system
mkdir tmp mount /dev/hda2 tmp (or whatever your root partition is) chroot tmp mount /boot (if it's on a separate partition) mk_initrd
reboot, and you should be fine
I did this, and I am now fine :) Thanks for that very timely hint, Anders. Incidentally, the 9.2 "mini-installation iso", which is only a 64M (or so) iso, available from the SuSE ftp site, has a suitable rescue system available on it; it's this (since my DVD is at home, not at work) that I used to boot so I could apply the fix. This is the first YOU I've done for ages which has broken things at all, let alone this badly. In a rush to get it out of the door before Christmas, perhaps? -- Bill