I posted a long time ago on this subject, so apologies for posting again. Also, I searched the forums and wiki and didn’t find any satisfactory or definitive answer.
I have a notebook that CANNOT boot from usb - stick, cd, whatever.
I have a separate small partition for linux hdd installs. I have been able to run most distros by editting grub’s menu.lst file and adding the correct kernel and ramdisk parameters. (PCLOS, sidux, mandriva, chakra, sabayon, dreamlinux, etc. ALL work with this method)
However, I haven’t been able to do this with open-suse.
I am presently downloading the KDE4 cd version now (UPDATE - downloaded successfully). I will extract this iso file and put it into my linux install partition.
Is suse designed so it is possible to boot as described above??
For example, Chakra works like this:
title CHAKRA
kernel (hd0,6)/isolinux/vmlinuz vga=773
initrd (hd0,6)/isolinux/chakra.img
How can OpenSuse be considered a venerable distribution if there aren’t even any people who can give advice on this issue…???
As I say, pretty much any other distro I have worked with can EASILY facilitate boot of a livecd iso extracted to HDD and/or an installation from extracted iso on HDD…
BTW, slow on this reply, but I checked out the forums and the wikis and also the link you gave, but it didn’t allow me to at all boot the suse extracted iso image from my HDD.
