UPDATE Re: [Cialug] upgrading opensuse 10.1 -> 10.2

[Matt Patterson]

Ah, the joys of system administration.

I found the general source of my issues with the upgrade and grub problem. 
It was one of the grub files other than menu.lst.    I'm guessing the 
stage1 or 2 files.

Here is how I fixed the issue.  I booted off the opensuse10.2 install Cd 
into rescue mode.  Mounted the root partition and brought up an IP.  From 
there I went to its matching sister server and grabbed everything from 
/boot and /lib/modules since I was basically rolling back the kernel at 
this point.  Once the files were in place on the mounted root partition, I 
re-ran the grub setup commands, rebooted, prayed to the bit gods and 
Eureka!  SUSE boots as expected.

I still have a snapshot of the bad boot directory and I am going to try 
and see what was screwed up.  Needless to say, this is VERY annoying that 
this has now happened twice on different hardware.

Has anyone else been bitten like this?

-Matt


On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Matt Patterson wrote:

> All,
>
> I'm starting to get that urge to kill again.  It's been one of those nights.
>
> I'm having an issue with the upgrade process from opensuse 10.1 to opensuse 
> 10.2. Here is what I have done.  I have a local mirror of the opensuse 
> repository and have set my boxes to look at the opensuse stable repository as 
> described by the help section of the opensuse site.
>
> I have successfully gotten one box to go through the upgrade process getting 
> the patches for 10.1, reboot for the new kernel and then getting the rest of 
> the packages to update to 10.2.
>
> Last week, on matching hardware as the 1st successful update, opensuse failed 
> to write out a proper menu.lst file for grub.  It put in the initrd line but 
> left out the root and kernel lines which, based on past experience, are 
> pretty important.
>
> So, I got around that issue and figured it was a fluke.  That is, until 
> tonight happened.  Tonight's issue is happening on different hardware (IBM 
> instead of Dell).  Instead of getting a screwed up menu.lst file, I get a 
> 'Grub loading, please wait' line to flash across my screen before the system 
> reboots.    I booted up a rescue CD, got into grub and did the normal root 
> and setup command.  It states that everything went fine.  But I'm still in 
> the reboot loop hell.
>
> With different hardware between the issues, I'm starting to think that there 
> is a bug in suse.
>
> Any thoughts on how to get this box back and what I can do to avoid this 
> issue in the future?  I'm going to try lilo in the morning and see if that 
> will allow this thing to boot properly.
>
>
> -Matt
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