Yes,
That is what I plan to do moving forward. I managed to restore my system and things look
good again.
It is unsettling to know an honest/innocent yast kernel update can leave your machine unuseable
unless you take such precautions and save at least one known safe and working kernel version.
Vahe
----- Original Message ----
From: Rajko M.
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.
As somebody else wrote (Anders Johansson):
] In the past few releases, you can't just do a chroot from the rescue
] system. You have to (assuming the root partition is mounted on /mnt)
]
] mount -o bind /proc /mnt/proc
] mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys
] mount -o bind /dev /proc/dev
]
] then you can do the chroot
Once you do the chroot, you can fire up yast and force a reinstall of the
kernel.
In theory, the automatic rescue thing should work, but... :-?
Is there a way to configure yast to not delete an old kernel when a new
one is installed?
No. The easiest way for me is to copy old kernel modules in /lib/modules to safe place, the same with /boot and restore what I want after update and before reboot. Add old kernel to /boot.grub/menu.lst and than reboot. I actually have symlinks vmlinuz-old and initrd-old so I update them insted of menu.lst. Than everybody is happy, YaST has new kernel and I have old. -- Regards, Rajko. See http://en.opensuse.org/Portal -- 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