I have updated to the new kernel that was available from 11.2 and now I cant use my system.
It boots up into kde 4.3.5 and then right when its just finishing it freezes everytime and I hear that last tone of the bootup sound ring continually until I force a shutdown. Anyone else have this issue with the update?
Its kinda hard to tell but I think it hangs right when my wireless tries to connect???
How can I get into command line and rollback to the other kernel?
You can try booting in Safe Mode to see if it will get you that far.
Try Doing it via yast this way
Boot to Level 3, then Yast and More… - openSUSE Forums
Do you have an rt2860 or rt2870 as your wireless device? If so, the 2.6.31.8
kernel is defective. The problem is known and will be fixed in the 2.6.31.12
release. Until that is available, you need to revert to the 2.6.31.5 kernel. If
you do not have Internet access in Linux, you can download the rpm from
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/suse/x86_64
or
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/suse/i686
depending on your architecture.
The file you want is kernel-desktop-2.6.31.5-0.1.1.XXXX.rpm, where XXXX
indicates the architecture.
Boot your system with the wireless disabled, either with the switch turned off,
or by booting to run level 3 (type a 3 in the GRUB option line before starting).
Copy the above file and issue the command:
sudo rpm -iv kernel-desktop-…rpm
After this completes, your GRUB memu will have both 2.6.31.5 and 2.6.31.8
options available.
I use a linksys wireless N card that uses a ralink chipset. But I think that with the info above ill be able to get it back again. fingers crossed…
****, more research has told me that the ralink chipsets are the rtxxx. So thats it!!! Thanks for the help. Now off to try and revert back to old kernel.
I updated to new kernel today 2.6.31-12?. Now I can’t boot to the new kernel, “can’t find file”, booting to the old kernel or failsafe leads to text mode since I had Nvidia drivers installed. the new kernel seems to live on the wrong partition, number 8 while the old kernel was on number 7. I don’t know if that is the cause of the problem or what to do about it. >:(
I ran the repair installed system from the OpenSUSE 11.2 DVD. It repaired? the system. I had to reinstall the Windows 7 option and ran the system update which updated over 200 packages. Now it won’t boot unless I use x11failsafe. It now filps between 2 NVIDIA logos and a screen with ribbon of garbage. Previously, I reinstalled the NVIDIA CUDA drivers, CUDA toolkit and SDK which seemed to clear up an episodic boot hangup.
I reinstalled the CUDA driver and now the system boots up a little slowly but correctly using the NVIDIA logo with red letters.
Why are you doing repair? Repair pretty much brings things back to what is on the disk. You could have just dropped back to the previous kernel. Also I bet in all those updates after repair you ended up with the new kernel again.
After the kernel update, I had the new kernel and the old kernel choices for both desktop and failsafe. When I had problems booting the new kernel, i tried the old kernel. However it booted into a text console and looking at grub, it seemed that the new kernel had been installed on a different partition, #8, while the old kernel was on #7. I realize that repair and update is a lengthy process but i wasn’t sure of any other way. anyway, I now am back to a usable system with kernel 2.6.31.12-0.1-desktop. 