Dear all,
I am running openSUSE 13.2.
Last night I installed a kernel update (4.5.0-1.1.g95a9976; previous version: 4.4.5-1.1.g09dee88; both for i586) as supplied by the software updater. Today - upon next boot of this machine - the boot process hangs saying:
Booting ‘openSUSE’
Loading Linux 4.5.0-1.g95a9976-default
Loading inital ramdisk …
I can still boot into the previous version through the advanced options tab.
Here is the contents of /boot:
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 512 Jan 23 2015 backup_mbr
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Jan 23 2015 boot → .
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 1484 Oct 22 2014 boot.readme
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 180365 Mar 10 10:30 config-4.4.5-1.g09dee88-default
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 183192 Mar 15 09:27 config-4.5.0-1.g95a9976-default
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Nov 11 08:20 dracut
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jan 23 2015 grub
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 1024 Mar 16 08:21 grub2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Mar 15 21:43 initrd → initrd-4.5.0-1.g95a9976-default
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 9495880 Mar 10 18:14 initrd-4.4.5-1.g09dee88-default
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 9511484 Mar 15 21:45 initrd-4.5.0-1.g95a9976-default
drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Jan 23 2015 lost+found
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 424448 Oct 26 2014 message
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 345043 Mar 10 12:42 symvers-4.4.5-1.g09dee88-default.gz
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 349413 Mar 15 11:45 symvers-4.5.0-1.g95a9976-default.gz
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 361 Mar 10 12:42 sysctl.conf-4.4.5-1.g09dee88-default
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 361 Mar 15 11:45 sysctl.conf-4.5.0-1.g95a9976-default
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 2542427 Mar 10 12:28 System.map-4.4.5-1.g09dee88-default
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 2577021 Mar 15 11:14 System.map-4.5.0-1.g95a9976-default
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 7640764 Mar 10 08:24 vmlinux-4.4.5-1.g09dee88-default.gz
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 7738387 Mar 15 11:56 vmlinux-4.5.0-1.g95a9976-default.gz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Mar 15 21:43 vmlinuz → vmlinuz-4.5.0-1.g95a9976-default
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 5897152 Mar 10 12:28 vmlinuz-4.4.5-1.g09dee88-default
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 5986176 Mar 15 11:14 vmlinuz-4.5.0-1.g95a9976-default
Looks like everything is there, but maybe the initial ramdisk is broken?
What can I do to get this to correctly boot into the 4.5.0 version?
Thanks for any help.
Best regards
Bernd