From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E53hf-0005kk-RG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:50:16 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7GFmhxW013213; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:48:43 GMT Received: from smtp16.wxs.nl (smtp16.wxs.nl [195.121.6.39]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7GFj3wv020548 for ; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:45:04 GMT Received: from [10.0.0.150] (ip3e83ab52.speed.planet.nl [62.131.171.82]) by smtp16.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 2 (built Jul 14 2004)) with ESMTP id <0ILB004PXNS9W7@smtp16.wxs.nl> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 17:45:45 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 17:45:37 +0200 From: Holly Bostick Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dual-linuxdistro-boot kernel question In-reply-to: <20050816163505.7528ca7c@hactar.digimed.co.uk> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <43020A21.4010205@planet.nl> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: nl-NL, nl, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050803) X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 References: <43020D55.2040403@kabelnet.hu> <43020241.2060105@planet.nl> <20050816163505.7528ca7c@hactar.digimed.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: 804c8e62-cd75-4b1a-b364-d903345153be X-Archives-Hash: 24c27e8c3f9ecfc7e7b36132cf745a5c Neil Bothwick schreef: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 17:12:01 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > > >>If, like me, you installed one distro with /boot as just a folder on the >>/ partition, then installed the second using a separate partition as >>/boot, then you likely have to do what I did and copy one kernel (and >>associated files) to the /boot of the distro whose bootloader you're >>using, > > > You don't have to copy anything, because the kernel doesn't have to be in > the same directory as the bootloader config. It's perfectly acceptable, > and a lot easier to manage, if all your secondary distros have their own > /boot directory, probably not a separate partition. > 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. But it's quite possible that SuSE is the only (or one of the very few) distros that is that picky. And it's also possible that I did something wrong so that it seemed that picky, when it really isn't (but I think it really is :) ). Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list