Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1750 mails)

[Dave Plater <dave.plater@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jon Clausen wrote:
> On Sat, 04 Oct, 2008 at 13:15:15 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> > On Thursday 2008-10-02 at 19:52 -0400, Joe Zien wrote:
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> > > Can I use the SuSE 11 DVD as a rescue system to boot 11.0?
> > >
> > > In the old suse installation, there was a choice to boot an installed
> > > system, is that still available?
> > The feature was removed. :-(
>
> But linuxrc still has it. This is from memory (so please cmiiw) but the
> general steps are something to the effect of;
>
> - boot from dvd
> - choose 'installation'
> - hit 'abort'/'quit'/'yes I mean it' until you get the red 'an error
>   occured'-screen
> - hit 'ok'
> - choose 'start installation'
> - choose 'boot installed system'
>
> At this point linuxrc looks at the partitions and gives you a choice of the
> ones the are 'regular' filesystems.
>
> - choose the 'correct' partition
> - boot
>
> Not very 'flashy', but it does work.
>
> It suffers the same weakness as the 'boot installed system' from the
> installer;
>
> You end up with a system running the kernel from the dvd, which in many
> cases is older than the one on disk. So there are some operations that just
> won't work properly. But you *can* 'boot installed system' from the dvd.
>
> HTH
> /jon
I have never succeeded in booting installed system from the 11.0 retail dvd 
using the above method. It throws an error
and then the next time you try it hangs on glibc general protection faults.
Regards
Dave P

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