harddisk looks thus: Win98 2,7GB /hda1 /boot (Debian) 40MB /hda3 /boot (SuSE) 40MB /hda4 / SuSE 6,5GB /hda5 swap both 133,3MB /hda6 swap both 133,3MB /hda7 / (Debian) 3,5GB /hda8

I DID have that before, but....no solution yet. I think your systems are uing the same booot partition ! Which leads to SuSE booting with wrong layout and thus problem with the startup-scripts. (/sbin/rc) Hmm, tough one I reckon. Try symlinks from one layout to another(don't know debian unfortunately. HTH dan

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hi all, i reckon it is a problem with /sbin/rc not being in it's proper place and thus getting skipped in inittab. Do you have debian and suse on the same filesystems ? regards dan

Debian was installed after this problem with booting into SuSE, to be able to save my work from SuSE in case I won't be able to get back in there. The

Cheers,

eagleice