Greetings,
For some time I have had Gentoo, SuSE and Windows XP on the same laptop
using triple boot with grub. Because of installing Debian I have shifted
SuSE to my external USB-harddrive. I can chroot into it alright but I
would also like to be able to boot it. It is slow but robust and
sometimes works better than my self-compiled kernel. I would also like
to have one static system that I do not change and of which I know that
it will work while experimentating with the other ones.
My BIOS-setup is very limited and I cannot boot anything but hda, cdrom
and the (not existend) floppy-disk. Everything I found on the net only
showed how to install grub onto the usb-drive which isn't very helpfull
for me.
I tried to add the following to /boot/grub/grub.conf but it didn't work:
title SUSE LINUX 9.2 (USB)
kernel (hd1,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 vga=0x317 selinux=0
splash=silent console=tty0 resume=/dev/hda2 desktop elevator=as showopts
initrd (hd1,1)/boot/initrd
Is there any way to make grub recognise and boot SuSE?
Happy Hacking,
Robert Himmelmann
Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about
can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely.
-- Lao Tsu
"Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Gödel's Theorem ..."
-- Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"
