[SLE] Recover Update of 10.1 from power failure hard crash.

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I started a SUSE Linux 10.1 upgrade from 10.0 on saturday. We had a bad
weather and a car hit a power pole. My power was out for over 6 hours. I
had just started and upgrade when the system died. The upgrade had
installed linux-2.6.16.13-4. I have a linux-2.6.16.13-4-obj but no
linux-2.6.16.13-4.

When I boot the system I get ...

waiting for /dev/had5 to appear: .... resume device /dev/hda5 not found
(Ignoring).

waiting for /dev/had6 to appear: .... not found exiting to (/bin/sh).


I have searched google for "linux waiting for to appear" and tried what I
could find most of them were about USB Devices and re-installing. When I
boot from CD 1 or the DVD I am able to mount/use both the swap and root as
/dev/hda5 and /dev/hda6. When I try to do a network install again the
system hangs hard before the select /dev/hda6. When I run install and
repair system I get a failure on mkinitrd that is run from the auto
repair in the grub menu part of the auto repair.

Auto Repair does not complain about any thing else. It does only have two
packages for the base instead of the complete list. Kernel and some YaST.
I tried going back to 2.6.13-15.8 with no luck. I remove all the
/boot/*2.6.13-15.8 files since they were not there when I booted to the
rescue system the first time.

I have tried Rescue System

mount /dev/hda6 /mnt
swapon /dev/had5
cd /mnt
chroot /mnt

mkinitrd and had it fail.

I then copied the /sbin from Rescue System to /lib/klibc/sbin as that what
was giving me errors on mkinitrd. Then it build and installs to /boot the
linux-2.6.16.13-4 files again. They are the exact same sizes each time.

Sadly I did not make a backup of the system. I am able to see all my
files on the disk from the rescue cd. So I have not lost any thing that
I need. The disk is a 120 GB disk with 6 GB available.

I tried to do a rpm --rebuilddb after the above mount and chroot. It did
not help. I am not sure what else to try. Does any one have any ideas on
getting this system to a state where I am able to restart the network
install. I have the entire 10.1/inst-source and 10.1/non-oss-inst-source
download to another system that is 10.0. I was using it for the network
install.

HELP? I do not know what else to try.

Thanks for any ideas.


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Boyd Gerber <gerberb@xxxxxxxxx>
ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047
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