Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2886 mails)

[Sjoerd Hiemstra <shiems@xxxxxxx>]

Lenz Grimmer:
> Tom Nicholson:
> > This will seem laughable to some of you, but I'm trying to figure
> > out why lilo presents a choice of Linux or SuSE (or Memory Test)?
> >
> > The mem test I can understand. But I thought SuSE was a Linux. I'm
> > suspecting it may have something to do with different kernels, but
> > am clueless beyond that.
>
> Yes, this label is admittedly badly labeled. "SuSE" is some kind of a
> fallback, if you compile your own kernel and can't boot it anymore.
> This image is a copy of the SuSE default kernel.

You could check /etc/lilo.conf to see what the label "SuSE" refers to. 
In my case, it referred to just nothing, because I had overlooked 
something in the Lilo configuration in Yast during installation....

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