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After installing updates on SLES/OES servers we have had issues where the server doesn't boot. The console comes to:
"No root device found; exiting to /bin/sh
sh: "

This is because the kernel was upgraded and a new initrd was created but it was not created with EVMS support (for some reason, not sure why, wonder when Novell/SUSE is going to fix this??).

This article explains how we worked around that.

Upgrading DCHP from Novell RPMs to isc.org downloads.

In this article, Neha Kanchan provides a series of steps which help to migrate from InstallShield based setup.exe to Windows based installer (msi).

I have been made aware of an issue with DLU in AD environments causing problems, especially so with new PCs in the Active Directory. Perhaps I'm not searching properly so perhaps this fix is documented elsewhere, but I found a solution. Hardly a fix, more following a convention.

On a GroupWise 8.0.1 system, you cannot set Mailbox Size Limits on the Client Options, Disk Space Mgmt tab any higher than 4 Gb, if your GroupWise user's client version is 7.x or below ...

This shell script optimizes some of the Gnome configuration options for simplicity and performance.