Re: Lilo Help
These steps form the 'Gentoo' install procedure might help when using chroot to to such things. I believe running lilo without a /proc will cause it to at least whine... -- __ | 0|___||. Andrew Gaunt - Computing Development Environment _| _| : : } Lucent Intranet: http://mvcde.inse.lucent.com/~quantum -(O)-==-o\ Internet: http://www.gaunt.org mount -t proc proc /mnt/gentoo/proc cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 12:18, Mansur, Warren wrote: - Open a terminal - Go to the directory that contains your original mounted hard drive - executed 'chroot' so that now your hard drive looks like '/' instead Ah, yes... chroot. I knew I was forgetting something. Thanks, Warren! It has been so long since I hosed up Lilo But, as a side note to anyone that may encounter this, it does not work from Knoppix. I chrooted /mnt/hda4 (my root drive), and made sure everything is as it should be. It was. I tried to run lilo, and I got errors about "open /dev/hda: permission denied". I made sure I was root, I made sure everything had correct permissions. I was, and everything did. I tried a few other things, and I got permission denied errors on /dev/null, too. Apparently, no matter what you do, Knoppix just won't let you work with files in /dev. I even changed the permissions to a+rwx on a few things (that it let me do), and I still couldn't run lilo or write to /dev/null. So, I used a Debian install/rescue disk, did everything exactly the same, and it worked fine. Things that make you go WTF?!?!?!?! Thanks, Kenny ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Lilo Help
On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 14:16, Mark Komarinski wrote: > > It was mounted rw. I could touch a file, I could delete files, I could > > change permissions, etc. It just wouldn't let me do anything in /dev, > > and only in /dev. > > Oh right. Was /proc mounted? Oddly enough, that came up in a conversation I had with someone else. At first it wasn't. I did a mount -a and got everything mounted, and everything looked great. But nope, nothing changed. /dev was still unavailable. I'm pretty sure that it must be something that I did wrong, I just don't know what. And, I don't know of anyone that has done this in Knoppix. The debian cd worked just fine. My system is purring along just fine now. I just couldn't believe that I couldn't do it in Knoppix C-Ya, Kenny signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
RE: Lilo Help
Once your logged in with the root partition mounted ro, just do a 'mount -o remount,rw /mountpoint' to be able to make modifications to that partition. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cole Tuininga Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 2:00 PM To: GNHLUG List Subject: RE: Lilo Help By default, KNOPPIX mounts hard drive partitions with the "ro" flag. In other words, no writing allowed. 8) There's a way to mount it rw through the gui, but I don't remember it off the top of my head. You should be able to do it from the command line, or so I would imagine. -- "The best firewall is a pair of wire cutters." -Unknown, from the net Cole Tuininga Lead Developer Code Energy, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 0x43E5755D ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Lilo Help
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 02:05:16PM -0400, Kenny Lussier wrote: > On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 14:04, Mark Komarinski wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 01:59:38PM -0400, Cole Tuininga wrote: > > > > > > By default, KNOPPIX mounts hard drive partitions with the "ro" flag. In > > > other words, no writing allowed. 8) > > > I've been using knoppix to bootstrap Debian stable to new boxes we're > > getting. You can mount R/W by hand. > > > > If it's already mounted, you should be able to mount -o remount,rw /dev/hda > > and you won't have to umount/mount the partition. > > It was mounted rw. I could touch a file, I could delete files, I could > change permissions, etc. It just wouldn't let me do anything in /dev, > and only in /dev. Oh right. Was /proc mounted? -Mark signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Lilo Help
On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 14:04, Mark Komarinski wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 01:59:38PM -0400, Cole Tuininga wrote: > > > > By default, KNOPPIX mounts hard drive partitions with the "ro" flag. In > > other words, no writing allowed. 8) > I've been using knoppix to bootstrap Debian stable to new boxes we're > getting. You can mount R/W by hand. > > If it's already mounted, you should be able to mount -o remount,rw /dev/hda > and you won't have to umount/mount the partition. It was mounted rw. I could touch a file, I could delete files, I could change permissions, etc. It just wouldn't let me do anything in /dev, and only in /dev. C-Ya, Kenny signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Lilo Help
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 01:59:38PM -0400, Cole Tuininga wrote: > > By default, KNOPPIX mounts hard drive partitions with the "ro" flag. In > other words, no writing allowed. 8) > > There's a way to mount it rw through the gui, but I don't remember it > off the top of my head. You should be able to do it from the command > line, or so I would imagine. I've been using knoppix to bootstrap Debian stable to new boxes we're getting. You can mount R/W by hand. If it's already mounted, you should be able to mount -o remount,rw /dev/hda and you won't have to umount/mount the partition. -Mark signature.asc Description: Digital signature
RE: Lilo Help
By default, KNOPPIX mounts hard drive partitions with the "ro" flag. In other words, no writing allowed. 8) There's a way to mount it rw through the gui, but I don't remember it off the top of my head. You should be able to do it from the command line, or so I would imagine. -- "The best firewall is a pair of wire cutters." -Unknown, from the net Cole Tuininga Lead Developer Code Energy, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 0x43E5755D ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
RE: Lilo Help
On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 12:18, Mansur, Warren wrote: > > - Open a terminal > - Go to the directory that contains your original mounted hard drive > - executed 'chroot' so that now your hard drive looks like '/' instead Ah, yes... chroot. I knew I was forgetting something. Thanks, Warren! It has been so long since I hosed up Lilo But, as a side note to anyone that may encounter this, it does not work from Knoppix. I chrooted /mnt/hda4 (my root drive), and made sure everything is as it should be. It was. I tried to run lilo, and I got errors about "open /dev/hda: permission denied". I made sure I was root, I made sure everything had correct permissions. I was, and everything did. I tried a few other things, and I got permission denied errors on /dev/null, too. Apparently, no matter what you do, Knoppix just won't let you work with files in /dev. I even changed the permissions to a+rwx on a few things (that it let me do), and I still couldn't run lilo or write to /dev/null. So, I used a Debian install/rescue disk, did everything exactly the same, and it worked fine. Things that make you go WTF?!?!?!?! Thanks, Kenny ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
RE: Lilo Help
Title: Lilo Help Hi, Yes first you need to use a boot CD that can mount your original disk (such as your Knoppx CD). Next, execute these steps: - Open a terminal - Go to the directory that contains your original mounted hard drive - executed 'chroot' so that now your hard drive looks like '/' instead of '/mnt/hard_drive' (or whatever it's mounted as) - Run lilo to get it to re-write the boot record to the disk Cheers, Warren -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Kenny LussierSent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 12:13 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Lilo Help Hi All,While updating my system, I managed to fsck it pretty good. When I boot, I get LI and it stops. I remember that that means that the second stage loader doesn't take over. I just don't remember how to fix it. I can boot up Knoppix and mount the file systems, and everything seems to be there. Can anyone smack me upside the head with a clue stick on how to fix this while I go searching google?TIA,Kenny
Lilo Help
Title: Lilo Help Hi All, While updating my system, I managed to fsck it pretty good. When I boot, I get LI and it stops. I remember that that means that the second stage loader doesn't take over. I just don't remember how to fix it. I can boot up Knoppix and mount the file systems, and everything seems to be there. Can anyone smack me upside the head with a clue stick on how to fix this while I go searching google? TIA, Kenny
