Re: [opensuse] Help! Can't boot after installing SuSE 10.3

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





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