Re: [opensuse] 10.3 upgrade

** Reply to message from "Joe Morris (NTM)" <Joe_Morris@xxxxxxx> on Wed, 31 Oct
2007 21:06:21 +0800


On 10/31/2007 08:26 PM, Stan Goodman wrote:
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.

I know a little more now about the booting sequence of the partially upgraded
10.2 > 10.3.

GRUB seems still OK to be, it points to a stage-2 loader
which is at sector 0x1973e28 (which is inside /dev/sda6 somewhere).

(GRUB, I should add occupies its own small (7MB) EXT2 partition, sda7. The
reason it is there rather one of the conventional locations is that openSuSE
itself is on an XFS file system. XFS has its own peculiarities, and this is a
workaround.)

GRUB can also read that sector, and the ones directly after it,
and they contain valid GRUB datastructures as shown by
the level of detail displayed by DFSee (see below).

++++++++++
GRUB stageX @PSN : 0x01973e28 Located on : /dev/hda6
StageX segm:addr : 0800:8000 Forcing LBA : No
Stage1 install by : 3.2 Boot Disk # : 0xff = disknr : 1
StageX install by : 3.2 LoadSegment : 0x0820 = stage 2 code
GRUB code version : 0.97 Code size : 100.5 KiB
GRUB Config file : /boot/grub/menu.lst
++++++++++

So, all is apparently as it should be, and I can't tell why it does not boot ...

Perhaps some change (kernel name/revision ?) is needed
in the /boot/grub/menu.lst file.

Does this ring a bell with anyone?

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Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel


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