[NTLUG:Discuss] SOLVED! Re: Poison update in OpenSuSE 11.0??

[Carl Haddick]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 08:18:38PM -0600, Stephen Davidson wrote:
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> In case anyone else hits this mess;
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> Solution:
> 1) Swap partition should NOT be the default /dev/sda1
> 2) Root partition with /boot SHOULD be /dev/sda1, NOT the default /dev/sda2
> 3) After update, but BEFORE required reboot, start Yast, edit
> bootloader, and select option "Write BootLoader to Disk".
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I respect reality, and I trust that cured the problems, but it's also a
bit surprising.  I'm no expert, but I've never heard of restrictions
regarding what device or partitions are appropriate for swap.  I've
never had trouble adding swap in regular files, for instance - it seems
that swap is forgiving.

I've also often put /boot on a separate mount from /, so that's
interesting that /boot has to be on root.  Putting /boot on a separate
partition, as I recall, made putting / on a software RAID device easier
(lazier for me, I admit).

Interesting.

Carl