----- Original Message ----
From: Vahe Avedissian
From: Carlos E. R.
Subject: Re: [opensuse] problems updating 10.3 x64 --> 11.0 x64 To: "OS-en" Date: Monday, July 7, 2008, 3:52 AM -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2008-07-06 at 22:58 -0700, Vahe Avedissian wrote:
MAybe this never made it out... I never got a reply from anyone on these update issues. Any input anyone?
Too complicated :-)
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- -- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
Well, if it were not so complicated, there would be no need to post to this group ;)... Anyway, here is what I suspect the root problem is: I have the following disks: 1. sata disk 2. 3ware raid array #1 3. 3ware array #2 fdisk and yast partitioner lists drives as: 1. sata disk ==> sda 2. 3ware raid array #1 ==> sdb 3. 3ware array #2 ==> sdc however, when I look in boot/grub, I see the following (in device.map): 1. sata disk ==> sdc 2. 3ware raid array #1 ==> sda 3. 3ware array #2 ==> sdb Basically, part of 11.0 sees disks in a different order than the other part. During installation, I *was* very careful to select the correct disk/partition but that did not eventually work because of the above problem. This is again an issue with enumerating sata/ide disks first and then scsi disks, versus the other way around. There seems to be an internal inconsistency withing 11.0! I don't know if this qualifies as a bug, but it sure makes updates and other maintenance a nightmare! Comments anyone? Vahe Follow-up... I just installed the latest kernel 2.6.25.9-0.2 and my system would not boot because grub was all messed up. I think this was a direct result of the above problem. Looks like this new kernel may have fixed some or all these inconsistencies. System had to be booted in rescue mode and the menu.lst had to be changed. Things worked fine afterwards. Vahe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org