There is another thread with the same title, but I decided to start a new one, a) because the previous thread was several months ago (April 2011), and b) the solution given there doesn’t work for me.
I ran into it after an upgrade trough Yast (upgrade all packages with new versions) from an already long running 11.4 .
When booting, the boot process halts with the message in the title, but it does so in runlevels 5, 3 and 1, both normal an fail safe, the only difference between normal and fail safe being that I see the boot messages coming on the screen in fail safe mode.
So there’s no way that I know to boot the system.
I can access the disks through the 12.1 version on another disk on the same machine.
What can I do to boot the original 11.4 properly?
Video hardware is a Geforce 8600 GTS.
Help appreciated!
There is another thread with the same title, but I decided to start a new one, a) because the previous thread was several months ago (April 2011), and b) the solution given there doesn’t work for me.
I ran into it after an upgrade trough Yast (upgrade all packages with new versions) from an already long running 11.4 .
When booting, the boot process halts with the message in the title, but it does so in runlevels 5, 3 and 1, both normal an fail safe, the only difference between normal and fail safe being that I see the boot messages coming on the screen in fail safe mode.
So there’s no way that I know to boot the system.
I can access the disks through the 12.1 version on another disk on the same machine.
What can I do to boot the original 11.4 properly?
Video hardware is a Geforce 8600 GTS.
Help appreciated!
If I had no kernel listed in my grub menu.lst file that could be loaded in Normal or FailSafe mode and worked, it would be time to reload openSUSE 11.4 I think. You would need to pick a custom partition setup, elect to mount only your /home (no format) while mounting the existing /, but reformatting it. Since the openSUSE installer whats to create a new openSUSE installation next to the old, you must on purpose point it on top of your old one. I am not sure what happened, but normally I suggest using the kernel load option nomodeset (which is included in FailSafe) and then installing the proprietary nVIDIA video driver.
Thank You,