[debian-knoppix] [SOLVED] Re: access to /dev/hda denied
Alexander Schmehl <schmehl@cs.uni-frankfurt.de> wrote:
> * Steffen Grunewald <steffen.grunewald@aei.mpg.de> [040430 13:18]:
>
>> Probably you would also want to use the original lilo.conf...
>> So you would have to mount the root (and /boot) partition onto /mnt
>> (or any other free mount point) and run lilo -r /mnt.
>> If that still fails, you would use chroot to work entirely on your
>> harddisk: chroot /mnt and then: lilo
>
> I'm not sure, but thought knoppix would mount partitions with nodev, so
> chrooting and running lilo will fail, since the devices are not
> accesable.
Thank you, that was it. Although the warning said:
# lilo -r /mnt/hda7/
Fatal: On open /dev/hda7: Permission denied.
#
the proper mount options solved the problem. Since just /dev/hda was
mentioned, I just forgot to think about the mount options of /dev/hda7.
Regards,
Elias
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