-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mathias Krause wrote: > Hi all, > > sorry ... i've been snowboarding for some days, that's why i didn't answer > for quite a while...
I had some hockey games to watch over the past week. Not a lot of work got done around here last week in general. > >>>> when i do >>>> grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/hda2 /dev/hda >>>> it says: >>>> cannot create folder /mnt/hda2/boot/grub, is already existing >>>> >>> Did you use a root account or sudo? The default knoppix user should not >>> have permission to do this. I have not used grub in a while, I prefer >>> the systemrescuecd but it is not as friendly as knoppix. > > here's what i did: > > sudo mount -rw /mnt/hda2 > sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/hda2 /dev/hda > > knoppix says: > -> mkdir: cannot create directory /mnt/hda2/boot/grub: already existing Instead of Knoppix, can I suggest that you try the Ubuntu 8.04 Live CD? Do not use the latest version (9.10) which is what will be shown on the download page by default. > minor 1 is the current boot installation without running system So this is your Windows partition? > minor 2 was the old root / which should get the boot flag > minor 3 was old /home > minor 5 was swap >> resp. sda, sdb etc. for all disks and post the part_xxx.txt files and >> also post /boot/grub/menu.lst > > cat /mnt/hda2/boot/grub/menu.lst > -> i/o error > That is really bad. Can you see any other files in grub folder by using ls -l? > everything else, than the /boot/grub folder can be read from the disk. > > i editet /mnt/hda2/boot/grub/menu.lst with the same knoppix CD some days > before after mounting it r/w. What do you get when you do "ls -la /mnt/hda2/boot/grub/menu.lst"? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkuNl1IACgkQwRXgH3rKGfPl/ACeLHEsc7UsJKK8Er2mGzzlkqTa n6YAn137hgLriILKzU7h80MZqaoxelYW =6Nqj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list 64studio-users@lists.64studio.com http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
