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Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 20:06:26 +0200
From: Holly Bostick <motub@planet.nl>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dual-linuxdistro-boot kernel question
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Neil Bothwick schreef:
> 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.

Ah... *there's* the missing link. Chainloading. One of my blind spots,
meaning that I don't know anything about it except wrt Windows, which
was and is no longer a factor. So I didn't try that wrt SuSE.

Thanks. I learn something new every day around here.

Holly
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