On Thu 29 Mar 2007 21:33:42 NZST +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: > I mean it worked when I installed SuSE, and it took over the boot > process and rewrote the mbr Unfortunately, 1) I do not want SuSE to > control the boot process, and 2) It only picked up ubuntu and ignored > the other releases on the machine. When I reset grub to look at ubuntu > ( grub root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) ) , I can boot ubuntu, fedora 6, > debian sarge and etch, freebsd, but NOT SuSE.
Just to summarise for other readers. The bottom line is one can have only one grub to boot multiple distros. On which distro's filesystem you put the menu.lst doesn't really matter. The last-installed distro is liable to overwrite the boot loader, unless explicit care is taken. So far no problem. Whether the last-installed distro guesses correct menu.lst entries for all the already existing distros is another matter. Some manual work may be needed. > Well, I asked the question as I don't know what SusSE does that's > different to all other mainstream linux distros, and freebsd. I've > detailed exactly the point that the system locks up in, and can > think of no reason for it to stop at this point. I'm booting SuSE, > I'm partway through the boot process, and I lock up after the point > mentioned above. Your kernel and initrd for suse are loaded correctly and init starts up running through /etc/init.d as it should. Your problem is not with the boot loader, you're well past that. There are no distro-differences - grub loads vmlinu[xz] and initrd and runs them, nothing distro-specific. Your problem seems to be that somewhere in the boot process something hangs. I already said where to look for what that is. Asking why it hangs looks more productive to me than asking what's different in suse. Who says you loaded all the correct kernel module(s) for some devious bit of kit? > Any suggestions would be gratefully received. Suggestion repeated. Your turn ;) I just remembered that there is some single-stepping facility a-la stepping through msdos config.sys. That would narrow which init script hangs. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
