I’ve been running 12.3 64-bit for a couple months. This morning, I applied all recommended updates, just as I normally do. During the package installation portion of the install, a window kept popping up informing me that the installation had been aborted by the user, which was news to me. Repeated attempts to install resulted in the same error. I ended up unchecking one of the opensuse security patches to try to get the installation to proceed, which it did. I rebooted as requested once the installation was complete (sans the one patch), but it won’t boot at all now. The only thing on the screen is the word “GRUB”, then it freezes. Any idea how I can get this to boot again?
I found this forum post, which sounded promising, and followed the instructions (replacing the partitions indicated with the actual partitions on my machine). Now it boots to a “grub>” prompt and stops.
I found the problem. My /boot partition was full, which is why the package update failed. Also, since /boot is on a standalone partition, I needed to mount it separately before executing the grub2-install command.
These are the best threads. Somebody solves his own problem and reports that before anyone else has replied.
I had a similar problem with my Tumbleweed install. I had allowed only 100M for “/boot”, and a new kernel overflowed that space.
You can check “/etc/zypp/zypp.conf”. Look for the line with “multiversion kernels”. If you comment out that line, you can prevent this problem from happening again.
My personal solution was to uninstall plymouth, so that less space is needed in “/boot”.