Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-ppc (75 mails)

[Olaf Hering <olh@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 08, Rasmus Back wrote:

> Thanks for responding Bruce.
> 
> Running the generate_os_chooser script marks os-chooser as bootable. I tried
> switching the boot script lines, but this only affects which os is booted
> when space isn't held down at startup. Pressing space still doesn't boot
> into the other os. I also tried moving all the files from suseboot to the
> top level of the boot partition, but this had no perceivable effect.
> I'm not sure I understand your last suggestion, though. Do you refer to the
> image =  vmlinux part, and that it should be changed to image =
> hd:7,/boot/vmlinux for the linux label.

That all sounds a little strange.
I created a lilo for ppc, its currently beta software, so be careful.
It can be found at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/powerpc/

In your case point the boot= value to the partition that contains the
suseboot folder.
Point the other= value to your real boot partition. 
Modify the /etc/lilo.conf until it fits and run `lilo`.

It will create a new folder "linuxboot" on the boot partition and mark
it bootable. 
If it still doesnt work, paste the output of pdisk -l /dev/hda and
proably the lilo output.

lilo > output 2>&1 


Gruss Olaf

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