Index: libguestfs-1.36.5/appliance/init
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--- libguestfs-1.36.5.orig/appliance/init
+++ libguestfs-1.36.5/appliance/init
@@ -206,7 +206,9 @@ else
   echo
   echo "Note: The contents of / are the rescue appliance."
   echo "You have to mount the guest's partitions under /sysroot"
-  echo "before you can examine them."
+  echo "before you can examine them. A helper script for that exists:"
+  echo "mount-rootfs-and-chroot.sh /dev/sda2"
+
   echo
   run_bash_with_ctty
   echo
Index: libguestfs-1.36.5/m4/guestfs_appliance.m4
===================================================================
--- libguestfs-1.36.5.orig/m4/guestfs_appliance.m4
+++ libguestfs-1.36.5/m4/guestfs_appliance.m4
@@ -97,9 +97,13 @@ AC_MSG_CHECKING([which Linux distro for
 if test -f /etc/os-release; then
     ( . /etc/os-release && echo $ID | tr '@<:@:lower:@:>@' '@<:@:upper:@:>@' ) >&AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD
     DISTRO="`. /etc/os-release && echo $ID | tr '@<:@:lower:@:>@' '@<:@:upper:@:>@'`"
+    if test -z "$DISTRO"; then
+        ( . /etc/os-release && echo $ID_LIKE | tr '@<:@:lower:@:>@' '@<:@:upper:@:>@' ) >&AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD
+        DISTRO="`. /etc/os-release && echo $ID_LIKE | tr '@<:@:lower:@:>@' '@<:@:upper:@:>@'`"
+    fi
     AS_CASE([$DISTRO],
             [FEDORA | RHEL | CENTOS],[DISTRO=REDHAT],
-            [OPENSUSE | SLED | SLES],[DISTRO=SUSE],
+            [OPENSUSE | SLED | SLES | SUSE],[DISTRO=SUSE],
             [ARCH],[DISTRO=ARCHLINUX])
 elif test -f /etc/debian_version; then
     DISTRO=DEBIAN