On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 17:45:37 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote:

> 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.

When I was dual-booting Gentoo and SUSE, I let SUSE install its
bootloader onto it's root partition and chainloaded it from Gentoo's
GRUB. It saved any such hassle.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

MIPS: Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed

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