On 11/16/2007 07:31 AM, Scott Simpson wrote: > /dev/sda1 /boot > /dev/sda2 / > /dev/sda3 system LVM > /dev/sdb1 system LVM > > I upgraded from 10.2 to 10.3. During the upgrade, 10.3 aborted during > the making of the initial ram disk /boot/initrd* (it got some kind of > udev error). All my kernels are there but I have NO ram disks, hence I > can't boot. When I tried booting off the kernel without an initrd, it > says it can't find the root partition (I believe it needs the > via82cxxx device driver because the root=/dev/sda2 option to grub > doesn't work). To fix this I tried > > 1. Booting off SUSE 10.3 disk using automatic repair - This didn't > work and it added a line to my /etc/fstab I had to remove using a > rescue disk. > Don't use this, it is broken. > 2. Booting into SUSE 10.3 rescue mode - I can't use mkinitrd to create > a RAM disk here because the correct files aren't in the right places > in rescue mode to make a RAM disk image. Also, When I boot in rescue > mode, the rescue mode kernel is 2.6.22.5-23 and my on disk kernel is > 2.6.22.5-31. > Use the rescue system to fix this, if your lib directory is on / and not LVM. If it is, I don't know. Do this: log in as root. mount /dev/sda2 /mnt mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev mount -o bind /proc /mnt/proc mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys cd /mnt chroot /mnt mkinitrd
Now look around to see if everything looks OK. If it does, exit, then shutdown -r now If your filesystem is on LVM, I don't have any experience with it so someone else will need to help. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
