Hi,
I've messed up by bootloader. I have just installed Mandrake 7.1
as a second Linux OS on my PC (PIII). My existing OS is SuSE 6.4.
SuSE is my distro of choice (or was until I tried out Mdk7.1).
So, I installed Mandrake, and everything went (impressively) well.
Except for one thing. My SuSE install won't boot now. When I try
to boot it, I end up with a kernel panic:
Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to the kernel.
I expect my mistake was to install lilo during the Mandrake install,
I already had a working lilo. Lilo (on Mandrake) is configured as
/dev/hda1 linux-suse /boot/vmlinuz (default)
/dev/hda4 linux-mandrake /boot/vmlinuz
SuSE is installed on /dev/hda1 as /boot (20MB), and
/dev/hda2 as / (10GB); Mandrake is installed on /dev/hda4
(single partition). The swap partition is on /dev/hda3.
I can mount both /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 when logged into
Mandrake.
Any suggestions as to how I might get SuSE booting again?
Many thanks,
Cormac.
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