On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 09:36 -0500, Sean Lamb wrote:
Okay, I've searched through the archives, but I haven't seen a solution to this.
I've got the 5 CD images downloaded and burned successfully. I was able to use them to upgrade my home desktop box to 10.0 (a couple of small issues left in that upgrade, but I know the disks are good). Today, I'm trying upgrade my laptop (IBM Thinkpad 390X) but can't start the installation.
The laptop system does support booting from the CD drive, and I was able to install the commercial SuSE 9.0 release on it that way, but being a CD recorder drive and using CD-Rs for the install media, it's not seeing disk 1 as bootable but as recordable.
So, I thought I'd try building the boot floppies. The OpenSuSE documentation suggests using Slackware's smart boot disk. Trying that to boot the CD, the child boot hangs with "LI".
When I run CD1:/boot/mkbootdisk from the existing system, I get the following error:
error: /usr/bin/syslinux not found Please install package "syslinux" first.
Since I'm running mkbootdisk from a SuSE 9.0 system, shouldn't syslinux already be there?
No. You have to install the package. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998