[ciapug] Joy of updating to OpenSUSE 11.0

[David Champion]

There was an issue a while back that caused the CIALUG list to 
unsubscribe users with mediacom addresses. I thought those users got 
automatically re-subbed, but I could be wrong.

-dc

Carl Olsen wrote:
> I got an email saying I had been unsubscribed from the CIALUG and haven't
> gotten around to re-subscribing.  I'll check it out.
>
> Thank you!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ciapug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:ciapug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf
> Of David Champion
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 4:41 PM
> To: Central Iowa PHP Users Group
> Subject: Re: [ciapug] Joy of updating to OpenSUSE 11.0
>
> Carl, people were just discussing this exact issue on the CIALUG list 
> last week. Might be more appropriate for you to ask for help there.
>
> You can browse the archives here:
>
> http://cialug.org/pipermail/cialug/2008-July/thread.html
>
> -dc
>
> Carl Olsen wrote:
>   
>> I updated my OS from OpenSUSE 10.3 to OpenSUSE 11.0 last weekend and the
>> computer would not reboot.  It just came up with a prompt "grub>".
>>
>>  
>>
>> I had never seen this before, so I wasn't sure what it was.  After doing
>> some research, I found out it is a boot loader and it didn't know where to
>> boot from.  So, now I know how to manually tell it where the kernel and
>> initrd files are located and how to configure it to find OpenSUSE 11.0.
>>     
> I'm
>   
>> not sure why all that was necessary, but I'm back up and running smoothly
>> again and a little more nerdy.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Carl Olsen
>>
>> Drake University
>>