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Loading the Linux Kernel Manually Using GRUB on SLES

This article will show you how, when presented with this situation, to manually load your kernel and find out what went awry. First thing is to briefly explain how Grub loads itself and the kernel. GRUB in a nutshell When the s ...

Article - mfaris01 - 1 Apr 2011 - 2:15pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments - 5 groups

Rollback SLES Online Updates with LVM Snapshots

... a failed online update. You simply backup your boot directory , create an LVM snapshot of your system disk, and then update ... any kind replaces a good backup solution. Backup the /boot directory. Since the boot partition cannot be an LVM volume due to ...

Article - jrecord - 22 Aug 2008 - 5:50pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments - 3 groups

Disabling the ZENworks Partition Creation Menu and Enabling a Custom Imaging Script in ZENworks 7 SP1 HP5.

... from the settings.txt file located at /srv/tftp/ boot directory and by user input. The setup is similar to the one used by ... is to compress the file and move it back to its original boot directory. We accomplish this by again using the method described in the ...

Article - Bobby Guillory - 12 Oct 2007 - 3:20pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments - 2 groups

Magic Sysrq -- your emergency link to the kernel

... SysRq. To do this check out the config file in the / boot directory of your server or desktop machine. The OS I ... you may find that you have many configuration files in the boot directory that represent kernels you have or have had on your system. So ...

Article - maggot62 - 23 Oct 2008 - 7:34am - 0 comments - 0 attachments - 3 groups

Password Protecting ZEN Maintenance Mode

You'll need to modify the initrd's that are loaded by maintenance mode to modify their startup scripts to prompt for a password. tty1 First, we need to modify the initrd used by tty1. You can find this in your tftp server 's 'b ...

Article - jayen - 7 Apr 2009 - 2:23pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments - 2 groups

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