Emergency Procedure for Booting an Installed SuSE Linux System

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Applies to

SuSE Linux: Versions since 7.0

Situation

Your system is not available through the boot loader LILO and you want to access it in order to solve the problem.

Procedure

You should normally be able to access your installed system by following the instructions in step 1. However, if you require specific driver modules for your hardware components, proceed as described in step 2.

1. System boot with YaST2 (from SuSE Linux 7.2 on)

Select 'boot installed system'. The root partition will be detected and the the system will be started.

2. System boot via Linuxrc

Once these steps have been performed, either the installation will be completed or you will gain access to the system. Please note that the started kernel is the kernel from the CD and that some problems might arise if you have installed a different kernel.

Further information on possible problems with lilo is available at "LILO fails: Error messages and their interpretation " (http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/kgw_lilo_errmsg.html).

Alternatively, you can opt for creating a boot CD. For more information on this subject please refer to "How to Create a System Boot CD" (http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/fhassel_bootcd.html). Please note that this procedure exceeds the scope of the free of charge installation support.


Keywords: BOOT, LINUX, INSTALLED, SYSTEM, START, LOAD

Categories: Booting

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