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Neil Bothwick schreef: |
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> On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 17:45:37 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: |
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>>Maybe under normal circumstances it is, but SUSE really doesn't seem to |
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>>like booting from Gentoo's bootloader when the SUSE kernel is on the |
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>>other partition (not in the /boot partition my Gentoo uses). Of course, |
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>>the SUSE kernel doesn't like to boot from 'normal' entries, either-- I |
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>>recall when I was still using LiLO, that I had to physically copy the |
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>>SuSE entry from SuSE's lilo.conf to the lilo.conf I was actually using, |
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>>because just adding a standard entry to point to the SuSE |
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>>kernel/partition wouldn't boot SuSE. |
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> When I was dual-booting Gentoo and SUSE, I let SUSE install its |
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> bootloader onto it's root partition and chainloaded it from Gentoo's |
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> GRUB. It saved any such hassle. |
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Ah... *there's* the missing link. Chainloading. One of my blind spots, |
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meaning that I don't know anything about it except wrt Windows, which |
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was and is no longer a factor. So I didn't try that wrt SuSE. |
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Thanks. I learn something new every day around here. |
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Holly |
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