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I have a perfectly functioning Slackware 12.2 system and wanted to try out opensuse to see what the differences are. The suse with kde4live started from CD without any problem. The installation process worked fine except I couldn't install grub. So I added
# Suse 11.1 begins
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.7-9-default
initrd = /boot/initrd-2.6.27.7-9-default
root = /dev/hdb1
label = Open-SUSE
read-only
# Suse bootable partition config ends
to my lilo.conf and executed lilo. Then I copied the kernel vmlinuz-2.6.27.7-9-default to my /boot folder on /dev/hda1 where the slackware system is.
If I try to start suse from the lilo menu everything starts out fine. However after identifying all the usb-devices the folowing line appears and the boot process stops. :
waiting for /dev/root to appear ........
I assumed it was a problem with the different names for the hard disc drives in suse and slackware. Suse calls them sda, sdb, ... In Slackware it's hda, hdb, ... So I changed my lilo.conf to:
# Suse 11.1 begins
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.7-9-default
initrd = /boot/initrd-2.6.27.7-9-default
root = /dev/sdb1
label = Open-SUSE
read-only
# Suse bootable partition config ends
and added a link /dev/sdb1 pointing to /dev/hdb1 in the Slackware system because without it, lilo wouldn't write the MBR anew. Unfortunately, the problem remains.
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