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Originally Posted by colorpurple21859
If you want to try opensuse again, two work arounds
1. Install opensuse grub to opensuse partition, create a custom grub entry to chainload from slackware
2. Create a /suse directory on the slackware partition, copy the kernel and initrd from opensuse /boot to the /suse on the slackware partition. Create a custom entry to boot the /suse/<suse kernel/initrd> in slackware. With this work around will have to copy the new kernel/initrd over every time there is a kernel update in opensuse.
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Thanks, especially the 2nd way is cool, will save it for future reference. Appreciate your help on this thread.
Surely there were ways to make it work, but I found it a bit irritating that such a simple boot configuration didn't install effortlessly. As for Suse, in fact I did use openSuse before, more than 10 years ago at work, and it was a very positive experience. Back then I did a simple install, no multi-boot, and didn't have to touch grub configs at all. The distro itself was a pleasant surprise, it provided a comfortable working environment for software engineering work.
