I have been able to boot multiple distributions now without copying kernels back and forth. I would like to thank everyone for their suggestions. Here is what I did. I booted into suse and copied its lilo.conf to the /mnt/redhat/etc directory. I went to redhat, compiled a kernel, ran zlilo. When I rebooted I actually saw redhat's vmlinuz and not suse's. My suse lilo.conf was generated by yast. It looks like this: # LILO Konfigurations-Datei # Start LILO global Section boot=/dev/hda #compact # faster, but won't work on all systems. read-only prompt timeout=100 vga = normal # force sane state # End LILO global section # Linux bootable partition config begins image = /vmlinuz root = /dev/hda2 label = linux # Linux bootable partition config ends # # Linux bootable partition config begins image = /mnt/redhat/boot/vmlinuzr root = /dev/hdb1 label = redhat Now when I enter suse again, I dont see my kernel. I see redhat's vmlinuz. Its kinda obvious. I then run lilo in suse and it reads my kernel in /vmlinuz and gives it back. The two lilo.conf files are identical. I did not symlink them. I just did a copy. Now when I go to compile a redhat kernel, I can run make zlilo because there is a lilo.conf there. If you skip the lilo process in redhat it creates nothing there. I could not find a way to move the zImage in the /usr/src/linux/blah/blah/ directory to vmlinuz without running zlilo or lilo. I think lilo is necessary and you need to have a work around to do this or install kernels and add mount points to your suse fstab. I only mention this as a matter of interest for folks thinking about testing other distributions. Thanks to all the enlightened ones who hold the hands of the unwashed masses as they rummage around in distributions :) -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------ - To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the archiv at http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html
