i worked on a suse enterprise linux installation a few months back. we installed a second scsi card for a tape drive, rebooted the box, it asked if we wanted to add this device to the initrd (we said no since it wasn't a boot device). suse then proceeds to modify initrd anyway, actually trashes it completely, along with a bunch of other system files (modules.conf, etc), rewrites stuff in /boot, just hoses the system completely, totally unbootable. we ended up having to reimage the system from backups. and this was the ENTERPRISE version, not the free-as-in-beer-no-warranty-expresses-or-implied consumer version.
so don't feel bad, you're not alone :-) jason On Friday 18 June 2004 00:15, Brian Weaver wrote: > Thanks, but I read the GRUB documentation and rebuilt my menu.lst > file by hand. That and I used another 9.2 system at home as a > reference. I really wish I knew what happened. This kind of data loss > just isn't acceptable from an installation of an RPM (some losses are > worse than others). It makes we wonder if I really wish to continue > to use Mandrake after this experience. If I hadn't checked and just > rebooted my internet connection would be toast and I'd be spending > far more time trying to figure out what happened that I desire. > > I'm still running the old kernel right now. I'm kind of afraid to > reboot at this point..... Kind of makes me feel like I'm using > Windows again. > > -Weave > > Jason Tower [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 01:26:56AM -0400: > > i just checked one of my mdk92 servers, unfortunately it is using > > lilo not grub. but i'll be happy to send to the lilo config file > > if you want, at least you could install lilo and keep your system > > bootable. > > > > jason > > > > On Thursday 17 June 2004 01:06, Brian Weaver wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I've had a box running Mandrake 9.2 that has been stable for a > > > very long time. I went though the effort today to make sure that > > > it's update mirror was current and then did a 'urpmi > > > --auto-select' to upgrade the system. > > > > > > While I was at it I decided to install a more current kernel. I > > > used the command 'urpmi kernel-2.4.22.32mdk-1-1mdk'. Everything > > > appeared to go fine. Luckly for me I decided to see which kernel > > > it would boot into the next time the system was restarted (93 > > > days so far). That's when I noticed that ALL of my grub > > > configuration files were missing! > > > > > > Does anyone know of any issues with installing a new kernel in > > > Mandrake 9.2, or how to easily regenerate the missing grub files? > > > I think I may have a tarball of the old files, but I'm not sure. > > > This is the first time I've tried to upgrade a kernel on a > > > Mandrake box. I've never had a problem on a RedHat system when > > > I've performed a kernel upgrade. > > > > > > Any thoughts..... BTW I'm praying for no serious power failures > > > until I can resolve this issue. Since this is my gateway box I > > > would be cut off from the internet if goes down. > > > > > > -Weave > > > > -- > > TriLUG mailing list : > > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational > > FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : > > http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring > > : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
