Neil Bothwick schreef: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 17:12:01 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > > >>If, like me, you installed one distro with /boot as just a folder on the >>/ partition, then installed the second using a separate partition as >>/boot, then you likely have to do what I did and copy one kernel (and >>associated files) to the /boot of the distro whose bootloader you're >>using, > > > You don't have to copy anything, because the kernel doesn't have to be in > the same directory as the bootloader config. It's perfectly acceptable, > and a lot easier to manage, if all your secondary distros have their own > /boot directory, probably not a separate partition. >
Maybe under normal circumstances it is, but SUSE really doesn't seem to like booting from Gentoo's bootloader when the SUSE kernel is on the other partition (not in the /boot partition my Gentoo uses). Of course, the SUSE kernel doesn't like to boot from 'normal' entries, either-- I recall when I was still using LiLO, that I had to physically copy the SuSE entry from SuSE's lilo.conf to the lilo.conf I was actually using, because just adding a standard entry to point to the SuSE kernel/partition wouldn't boot SuSE. But it's quite possible that SuSE is the only (or one of the very few) distros that is that picky. And it's also possible that I did something wrong so that it seemed that picky, when it really isn't (but I think it really is :) ). Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
