"Helgi �rn" wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have a problem that has been bothering me for some time now and now I want
> to know if someone who has had a similar experience, or who knows what this is
> all about, is able to help me.
> On one computer I got Windows 98, SuSE 7.0 (which is my default OS) and Storm
> 2000 Debian/GNU, all on the same harddisk. Booting is taken care of by
> SuSE's Lilo. I have had several different Linux distributions installed on
> this 'secondary' linux partition and this is my problem: I only seem to be
> able to connect to the Internet with them when they have their own lilo
> installed on MBR. But as soon as I put SuSE's lilo back on the MBR then the
> other one (in this case Storm) is not able to connect and complains that ppp
> is not installed (which is not true).
> This is the harddisk disposition:
> /hda1 Win98
> /hda3 /boot (Storm)
> /hda4 /boot (SuSE)
> /hda5 / SuSE
> /hda6 swap
> /hda7 swap
> /hda8 / Storm
>
> Does this have anything to do with the /boot partitions?
> Do I need to have them at all?
>
> When I installed Storm's lilo on MBR then I was able to connect to the
> Internet with it, but not with SuSE. And: the sound in SuSE disappeared too!
>
> Grateful for all ideas on this,
> Helgi �rn
>
> --
My best guess ,you didn't properly tell lilo where the kernel is
and more likely you're using e.g. the storm kerenl with SUSE or
viceversa .To make sure just type uname -a and you will see which
distros kernel you are booting(e.g. Linux foo 2.2.16-storm ....)
--
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Alan Saporta
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