On Tuesday 10 December 2002 09:03 pm, Roland Hughes wrote: > I have recently upgraded/installed Mandrake 9.0 on a 700Mhz Duron, 512 > of memory and a 40 Gig drive. It was a fresh install with formating etc. > Below are my Fstab and pci output. > > The problem I am having is that the system thinks root has no rights to > things such as drives and various configuration files. This is logging > in as root or su'ing a terminal window. > > I have looked at various setting such as security etc but everything > seems ok. The security level is standard/normal as I am on a dialup. > > Thanks in advance, any help appreciated. > Roly > > boot=/dev/hda > map=/boot/map > default=linux > keytable=/boot/us.klt > prompt > nowarn > timeout=100 > message=/boot/message > menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw > image=/boot/vmlinuz > label=linux > root=/dev/hda1 > initrd=/boot/initrd.img > append="devfs=mount quiet mem=nopentium hdc=ide-scsi" > vga=788 > read-only > image=/boot/vmlinuz > label=linux-nonfb > root=/dev/hda1 > initrd=/boot/initrd.img > append="devfs=mount" > read-only > image=/boot/vmlinuz > label=failsafe > root=/dev/hda1 > initrd=/boot/initrd.img > append="devfs=nomount failsafe" > read-only > other=/dev/fd0 > label=floppy > unsafe > > PCI devices found: > Bus 0, device 0, function 0: > Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-751 [Irongate] System > Controller (rev 37). > Master Capable. Latency=120. > Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe8000000 [0xebffffff]. > Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xed9fe000 [0xed9fefff]. > I/O at 0xd600 [0xd603]. > Bus 0, device 1, function 0: > PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-751 [Irongate] AGP > Bridge (rev 1). > Master Capable. Latency=120. Min Gnt=10. > Bus 0, device 7, function 0: > ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-756 [Viper] ISA (rev > 1). > Bus 0, device 7, function 1: > IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-756 [Viper] IDE (rev > 7). > Master Capable. Latency=32. > I/O at 0xf000 [0xf00f]. > Bus 0, device 7, function 3: > Bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-756 [Viper] ACPI (rev 3). > Master Capable. Latency=120. > Bus 0, device 7, function 4: > USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-756 [Viper] USB > (rev 6). > IRQ 5. > Master Capable. Latency=16. Max Lat=80. > Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xefffe000 [0xefffefff]. > Bus 0, device 8, function 0: > SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940U/UW/D / AIC-7881U (rev 0). > IRQ 10. > Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=8. > I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdcff]. > Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xeffff000 [0xefffffff]. > Bus 0, device 9, function 0: > Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 8). > IRQ 11. > Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=20. > I/O at 0xd800 [0xd81f]. > Bus 0, device 9, function 1: > Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev > 8). > Master Capable. Latency=64. > I/O at 0xde00 [0xde07]. > Bus 0, device 10, function 0: > Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev > 1). > IRQ 9. > Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=56. > Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xed9ff000 [0xed9fffff]. > I/O at 0xda00 [0xda1f]. > Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xefe00000 [0xefefffff]. > Bus 1, device 5, function 0: > VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 (GeForce2 MX) > (rev 178). > IRQ 11. > Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=1. > Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xee000000 [0xeeffffff]. > Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd8000000 [0xdfffffff].
This is probably a dumb question, but, did you give a root password during install? If not I'm not sure how you do it after the fact, but someone on the list will know I'm sure. -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842
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