On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 7:07 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
I then installed kernel 3.8.2-1 on oS 12.3 RC2 (sda5) - and now I cannot boot.
All the parameters in the bootloader(s) appear to be OK except when I go to boot into "safe mode" in 12.3 (sda5) I get the error message:
Invalid Magic number.
What the f*** is "Invalid Magic number"?! *WHAT* number?! Of all the lame-brained, inane, stupid, meaningless error messages to have ever existed this one MUST take the cake! I think this beats whatever Windows ever managed to come with - and that's saying something.
Magic number dates way way back into the medieval perios of Unix. Originally some variable that was nicknamed "magic number". It now is generally used to reference a valid filetype or filesystem type. There is a fairly comprehensive explanation of it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming) I don't have a good suggestion for recovery - guessing... something broke when installing the new kernel. vmlinuz is wrong? the new kernel image is invalid? Is it only on 12.3RC2 or all installs? C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org