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SuSE over written by Mandrake

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by malcolmg 1 view

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I have SuSE V7 as my main Linux but installed Mandrake V7.1 on a different HD but it seems to have over-written something in my SuSE setup as it now says the PPP protocol is not in the Kernel preventing me from dialling out installing a different Kernel has no effect. If I boot from the SuSE DVD and then select boot from installed system its fine. I did upgrade to SuSE V7 prior to the Mandrake update - would it be better to revert to SuSE V6.4 and update again or is there an easier fix ??

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by gwanders

Since you have installed two Linux distributions, I suspect you may have invoked LILO to allow you to choose. For LILO to work, it must be installed in only one place, and that would have been on the Red Hat hard disk. When the Mandrake distribution was installed, it would have modified LILO. Try using Configure /etc/lilo.conf. and insuring that both OSs are are identified as boot alternates. See also the LILO mini-HOWTO, usually in /usr/doc/HOWTO; or another reference in /usr/doc/lilo*.

by malcolmg

LILO is installed on the boot sector of the 1st HD which is a Linux format drive and always has been. I have set LILO to select either Linux (SuSE), Mandrake or DOS (Win98). SuSE and Win98 are both on the same (2nd) HD. I will double check lilo.conf though as you suggest

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