On Sat, 12 Apr 2003 15:30:51 -0400
Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I seem to have hosed my system.
After rebuilding the kernel, I guess I ought to have run lilo again,
for the umpteemth time, which I didn't bother doing.
Now when I try to boot, no matter which image I use, it just
It seemed that even as root, I couldn't do things easily from a virtual
console. I was really nonplussed at the problem of lilo not being able to access
/dev/hda after chroot.
I wanted to then alter the lilo.conf that comes with knoppix, hoping I could
change it to what I needed to boot my
One trick I found with Knoppix is once you get a prompt do an su -. After
that you are really root and can do what you need - assuming you mount
stuff rw.
Joel Hammer wrote:
Fudgetta bout it.
For reasons unclear, my old kernel seems to be blown away, too.
So, I have to reinstall lindows.
Knoppix mounts all the disk partitions read only, co you have to remount
/dev/hda in r/w mode.
This really confuses me.
/dev/hda is not a directory or even a partition. It is the boot sector of
the first hard drive. I could not see how to mount that r/w or how that
would help me.
When you
On 04/12/03 15:31, Joel Hammer wrote:
It seemed that even as root, I couldn't do things easily from a virtual
console. I was really nonplussed at the problem of lilo not being able to access
/dev/hda after chroot.
I wanted to then alter the lilo.conf that comes with knoppix, hoping I could
change
Net Llama! wrote:
There's nothing wrong with Knoppix.
Have you tried 3.2? If so, is it worth the download? Are the changes
significant?
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How is that done?
Right clicking on icons only helps for partitions.
/dev/hda is the boot sector of the first hard drive. How can that be made
r/w?
Joel
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 03:53:00PM -0700, Net Llama! wrote:
It would if you had remounted your / filesystem read-write. There's
nothing
Joel Hammer wrote:
How is that done?
Right clicking on icons only helps for partitions.
/dev/hda is the boot sector of the first hard drive. How can that be made
r/w?
Why do you want to write to the mbr? Don't you need to find your
lilo.conf and edit it? Or is it that you need to run
On Sat, 12 Apr 2003 15:30:51 -0400
Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I seem to have hosed my system.
After rebuilding the kernel, I guess I ought to have run lilo again,
for the umpteemth time, which I didn't bother doing.
Now when I try to boot, no matter which image I use, it just
On Sat, 12 Apr 2003 18:36:06 -0400
Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Knoppix mounts all the disk partitions read only, co you have to
remount/dev/hda in r/w mode.
This really confuses me.
/dev/hda is not a directory or even a partition. It is the boot sector
of the first hard drive.
On Sat, 12 Apr 2003 15:30:51 -0400
Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I seem to have hosed my system.
After rebuilding the kernel, I guess I ought to have run lilo again,
for the umpteemth time, which I didn't bother doing.
Now when I try to boot, no matter which image I use, it just
from your previous description, it sounds like you didn't have any
kernels in /boot that coresponded with the contents of lilo.conf. that
has nothing to do with Knoppix.
On 04/12/03 16:07, Joel Hammer wrote:
How is that done?
Right clicking on icons only helps for partitions.
/dev/hda is the
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