[NTLUG:Discuss] Poison update in OpenSuSE 11.0??

[Stephen Davidson]

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Hi David.

I can put in a recovery CD and mount the partitions, no problem.  And
rebooting BEFORE applying the security patches works as well.  Its only
AFTER I apply the patches that things fail.  And I do NOT get any error
messages to lookup/search for.  I only get the Grub command line, and I
don't know Grub.  As a result, I have not been able to query it to see
if it knows what its problem is.

WHen I mounted the boot partition, I did check menu.lst to see if it was
maybe pointing to a file that was changed/renamed, but everything
matched up. So at this point, I do not have enough info to even figure
out what the next step is.

Currently (more as a random effort than anything else), I am doing a
format/install, and putting the root partition on /sda1 (OpenSuse
defaults to putting the Swap partition there, and I am wondering if that
is what is confusing Grub -- this is the first time I have seen that).

I am really leary about applying random firmware updates, especially
when I do not have any evidence that this might be the issue.  If there
is some way I can verify if something there is indeed an issue, I would
not hesitate.

Suggestions/hints welcome.

Regards,
Steve

David Simmons wrote:
> 
> Sounds like something about your hardware is causing the problem.  Do
> a Google.com/linux search for your motherboard, video card, add-on cards
> and see if others are having similar problems (or need a firmware update,
> etc).
> 
> Might also consider double-checking the Power
> supply.....I've pulled out more hair thinking things were software issues,
> when it was a flaky power-supply.
> 
> Just some ideas....
> 
> -dave
> 
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>> Greetings.
>>
>> Installed, no
> problem.  Printers and everything were set up ok (KDE3.5).
>>  Ran
> the updater to add the patches to all the packages (there were ALOT
>> of security & kernel patches).  And now system will boot into
> Grub, and
>> that's it.  Grub says it can't find the boot image.
>>
>> ????
>>
>> Anyone know what's going on? 
> Or am I going to have to write off
>> OpenSuse as well???  (Note:
> Fedora is also out -- clean install, and
>> Mozilla keeps crashing
> on Fedora 8 -- my wife says "Not usuable due to
>> its
> crashing").
>> Btw, on some upgrades, my 10.3 has
> lost some webbrowsing ability, and
>> its networking is not capable
> of talking to my home wireless (one of the
>> few things that
> Fedora 8 is doing).  As a result, I am getting a little
> desperate to find some Linux that I can use that actually works, or
> that
>> I can configure to keep working.  Suggestions welcome.
>>
>> Help?
>>
>> Steve
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