As the title says, my install of OpenSUSE 12.2 broke after an update to the kernel yesterday. It installed new versions of kernel 3.7.8-1-desktop and 3.7.8-1-default, and none of these GRUB entries boot (neither those, nor the matching “recovery mode” entries). They all fail with the following error:
Loading Linux 3.7.8-1-desktop …
error: `file /boot/vmlinuz-3.7.8-1-desktop not found’.
Loading initial ramdisk …
error: you need to load the kernel first.
From what I’ve seen, what happened to you and what’s happening to me are entirely different beasts, but thanks anyway. I will read the thread in more detail tomorrow and see if I can do something. In the meantime, other suggestions are welcome.
Please do not make insulting assumptions. I have already explained what I did, and it certainly was NOT “experimenting a little to much”, unless you consider “zypper ref && zypper dup” with only stable repos being active “experimenting a little too much”.
Anyway, for those that can wish to know, what happened is that kernet 3.7.9 was installed, but something went wrong with the upgrade (not with any experiments, 'cause there were none) and the relevant stuff didn’t get properly done so the system tried to boot kernel 3.7.8, but couldn’t 'cause it was no longer available. Hence, I renamed the proper files and the machine boots kernel 3.7.9 now, thinking that it’s 3.7.8. I know this is only a workaround, but I’ll do a proper fix one of these days. Thank you all for your assistance.