Re: [opensuse] 10.3 upgrade

** Reply to message from "Joe Morris (NTM)" <Joe_Morris@xxxxxxx> on Wed, 31 Oct
2007 20:12:20 +0800


On 10/30/2007 11:05 PM, Stan Goodman wrote:

That means that what I have to do is to get into YaST2 and redirect the loader
to where it should be, or equivalently to give a command-line instruction that
will do the same thing. I don't know how to do either of those things, and the
books I have here don't tell me.

I have never used the Rescue entry into SuSE. I have tried to go into it, and
am confronted with a demand for an ID and PW. I tried "root" as ID, but I have
no idea at all what it will accept as a PW.

What's a reasonable password for Rescue?
Your root password. You said this was an upgrade didn't you?
How can I find how to select the
loader location?

In Yast2 boot loader, or etc/sysconfig Editor.

In case you have never done this, you would log into the rescue system, then
mount the root partition of the drive, i.e. mount /dev/md0 /mnt
(Not sure if these are still needed in 10.3 or not)
mount -o bind /proc /mnt/proc
mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev
mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys
cd mnt
chroot /mnt
That will put you into your old system as root. To run Yast2 ncurses
mode, run yast.
to exit out of your change rooted system, type exit. Then shutdown -r
now to reboot. HTH.

Many, many thanks. I'm sure it would have taken me a long time to acquire all
of that by myself. But logging into Rescue involves getting past the demand for
an ID and password; I have tried using "root" and the PW that I have been using
as root in normal use, but these don't fly. What does it want?

--
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel


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