[Novalug] SUSE Linux tech event in Bethesda - Oct 2

Jay Hart jhart@kevla.org
Tue Oct 14 12:58:03 EDT 2008


Strike 3...

Jay

> I just tried to install the SUSE distros that they gave out at the
> Seminar. SLED worked fine, but SLES said "Missing Operating System"
> *after* my BIOS said "Booting from CD:". I actually grabbed a second
> copy, and it said the same thing.
>
> Interestingly enough, I what worked was the following:
>
> [1] Boot from the SLED DVD
> [2] At the Grub Menu, hit the up/down arrow key to stop let  grub know
> you want to interact with it
> [3] Swap in the SLES DVD
> [4] Select the "Installation" entry.
>
> Evidently, the kernel and initrd commands in grub are similar enough!
>
> JIM
>
> Kevin Chin wrote:
>> (Can't recall if I posted about this or not... so if it's a repeat,
>> sorry...)
>>
>> FYI,
>> If any of the folks on the list are interested, Novell and HP are
>> sponsoring a technical Linux seminar on Oct 2 in Bethesda MD, amongst
>> other cities around the country.  Amongst other things, we'll be doing
>> demos, covering SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 futures, etc.
>>
>> Details and registration links are available here:
>> http://www.novell.com/linux/linuxday
>>
>> TTYL.
>> --Kc
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