Upgrade from 12.2 to 13.1 now fails to boot

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Hello,
I really someone on the forum can help me recover my system.
System:
Virtual machine in VMware ESX
2 50G disks assigned (/dev/sda, and /dev/sdb)
/dev/sda1 has swap
/dev/sda2 has /
/dev/sdb1 has /srv

As soon as the system tries to boot after the grub menu I get “Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)”, followed by several other kernel messages before stopping dead.

I’ve booted into rescue mode from the DVD ISO and found that there isn’t a initrd file – none.
Attempted mounting /dev/sda2 under /mnt and chrooted to see if I could create an initrd file with mkinitrd, but that fails.

I tried following https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/493663-upgrading-12-3-13-1-repo-update-method-now-broken-grub --but with no success.

What other info do ya need?
I ran through the same zypper dup steps on my test system w/o issue, only my production server is having this problem so I would really appreciate any help you can offer.

Thanks,
Patrick

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Is that’s all that was mounted, it is not enough to make mkinitrd work.

and chrooted to see if I could create an initrd file with mkinitrd, but that fails.

Please copy and paste exact command invocation and its output in tags “code”.

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On 2014-01-12 23:56, phswartz wrote:

> I ran through the same zypper dup steps on my test system w/o issue,
> only my production server is having this problem so I would really
> appreciate any help you can offer.

Well, a “zypper dup” from 12.2 to 13.1 direct is bound to fail,
according to the developers.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)