Eric wrote:
> Barnacle Bill the Sailor wrote:
>> birre wrote:
>>> On 2007-03-20 03:26, David Bolt wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, John Bowling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:-
>>>>
>>>>> It changed /boot/grup/menu.lst to have only the floppy and the new
>>>>> kernel listed. Everything else was gone, and stayed gone for a couple
>>>>> of reboots.
>>>>>
>>>>> I went back, copied my old menu.lst back and edited the new kernel
>>>>> number into and it was fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> Why didn't it set it back to include what I had there on the first
>>>>> reboot after the the update? What was there was all created by Yast
>>>>> the
>>>>> previous time.
>>>>
>>>> The update is broken in some cases.
>>>>
>>>> From the SuSE-security-announce mailing list[0]:
>>>>
>>>> <quote>
>>>> We also had reports of the update breaking the bootloader
>>>> configuration, and apologize for the inconveniences caused. We are
>>>> investigating those problems and hope to release an update to fix
>>>> the bootloader handling code.
>>>>
>>>> If you are manually adapting /boot/grub/menu.lst, please review this
>>>> file after the update.
>>>> </quote>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [0]
>>>>
<URL:http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Mar/0004.html>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> David Bolt
>>>>
>>>
>>> I have opensuse 10.1 , opensuse 10.2 64-bit and opensuse 10.2 32-bit
>>> in my boot menu , and had to repair all of them by hand from the
>>> rescue boot :-(
>>>
>>> Something is broken for sure.
>>> But now I got the chance to learn how grub really works, so it was an
>>> very
>>> useful bug :-)
>>>
>>> /birre
>>
>>
>>
>> Hmmm, nary a problem on my machine. (Crossing fingers, and knocking wood)
>
> seems to be a random error or related to certain configurations. My boot
> menu is quite ok, but in wrong order at startup (default kernel is at
> 3rd position, failsafe at 1st).
>
> Eric
Have you tried the failsafe startup. I had some problems with menu.lst and
got the main ones figured out, moved kernel to ist position and failsafe
last. Problem is fail safe boots to the kde desktop unless I type init 3 on
the command line of the logon screen.
Does your work correctly (boot to terminal). I tried command from old
menu.lst and changed kernel info but it still goes to kde desktop. Could
you post your failsafe info if it works correctly.
Mine is:
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name:
failsafe###
title Failsafe -- opensuse 10.2
root (hd1,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-0.1-default root=/dev/hdb5 vga=normal
showopts ide=nodma apm=power-off acpi=off noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0
edd=off 3
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18.8-0.1-default
Thanks
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