On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 23:13:06 +1200 Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue 27 Mar 2007 11:25:55 NZST +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: > > > I've got a multi-boot system onto which I've just added opensuse 10.2. > > Now, I may have missed an option, but... > > > > 1. It overwrote the existing ubuntu grub. 2. After reinstating the > > Every OS you install wants/needs to install a boot loader for obvious > reasons. Can't complain there. If you have a highly souped up system, > you're capable to work around it ;) > > > ubuntu grub and updating the menu.lst to include opensust, it gets > > halfway and fails. > > > > The approach of not installing a bootloader and updating the ubuntu > > one works fine for fc6, debian sarge and freebsd so far, so what's so > > special about opensuse? > > Nothing special, no wait, no let's not go into that. > > What exactly has happened? > > Yast has asked you where and how to install a boot loader. I have never > looked at it from the point of not installing one at all, but see if it > has an option for skipping the step. If it doesn't, suggest it at > bugzilla.novell.com - right now 10.3 is in alpha and the opportunity for > new features will run out soonish. > > Btw the commands used to install grub are in /etc/grub.conf, the grub > menu is in /boot/grub/menu.lst. > > IIUYC you used an otherdistro grub to load suse (nothing wrong with > that). If it starts booting suse and then fails, you probably got the > menu.lst entry of otherdistro wrong. What exactly is the error, and the > menu.lst entry you use for booting suse? menu.lst entry. Cut and pasted from suse /boot/grub title SuSE Linux 10.2 root (hd0,6) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-0.1-default root=/dev/hda7 vga=0x314 splash=silent showopts initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18.8-0.1-default for errors see below. > > Oh, did you install any updates yet? Installing the kernel update > buggers the menu.lst. Workaround: install kernel update rpm, and rename > the /boot/grub/menu.lst.old over /boot/grub/menu.lst BEFORE REBOOTING. > You might also want to cross-check (and perhaps edit) the .old before > renaming. Yes, and it booted fine when grub looked to partition 7 (SuSE), not 0 (Ubuntu). > > Volker > > -- > Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header > http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. The first problem was that I was sharing swap across linux distros, and the default boot code has a resume=<swap device> option on the boot line. Now, I've got a line further, and the system locks up after the successful 'Loading required kernel modules' message. Any ideas what it does next??? Steve
