** Reply to message from "Joe Morris (NTM)"
On 10/30/2007 11:05 PM, Stan Goodman wrote:
That means that what I have to do is to get into YaST2 and redirect the loader to where it should be, or equivalently to give a command-line instruction that will do the same thing. I don't know how to do either of those things, and the books I have here don't tell me.
I have never used the Rescue entry into SuSE. I have tried to go into it, and am confronted with a demand for an ID and PW. I tried "root" as ID, but I have no idea at all what it will accept as a PW.
What's a reasonable password for Rescue?
Your root password. You said this was an upgrade didn't you?
How can I find how to select the loader location?
In Yast2 boot loader, or etc/sysconfig Editor.
In case you have never done this, you would log into the rescue system, then mount the root partition of the drive, i.e. mount /dev/md0 /mnt (Not sure if these are still needed in 10.3 or not) mount -o bind /proc /mnt/proc mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys cd mnt chroot /mnt That will put you into your old system as root. To run Yast2 ncurses mode, run yast. to exit out of your change rooted system, type exit. Then shutdown -r now to reboot. HTH.
Many, many thanks. I'm sure it would have taken me a long time to acquire all of that by myself. But logging into Rescue involves getting past the demand for an ID and password; I have tried using "root" and the PW that I have been using as root in normal use, but these don't fly. What does it want? -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel REAL similes/metaphors by high school students; #15: They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fence that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org