OpenSuSE 13.1 was released on November 2013, so i am late to upgrade my W530 Laptop. The main reason to upgrade is to make Intel’s on board card and NVIDIA’s card work in Optimus Modus. For that the latest kernel version is required.
Following these straight forward instructions to upgrade the distribution from the command line i succeeded to screw it up: i was unable to login with X and had to switch to console/root mode to recover.
The reason for that was NVIDIA native driver, that wasn’t properly updated with new kernel (probably because repository was deactivated). So i think the step to remove it prior to upgrade should be mentioned in instructions.
After removing all NVIDIA drivers and running `mkinitrd` everything was working again. Well almost.
The grub entry on boot screen still shows 12.3 even though it is 13.1, as splash screen image shows:
It turns out it is long standing bug in OpenSUSE. And it is annoying to have to fix it manually:
#replace this line in /etc/default/grub GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="openSUSE 13.1" #run grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
