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[debian-knoppix] Re: debian-knoppix digest, Vol 1 #866 - 12 msgs



> > Also, what are you accessing /dev/hda for? Maybe you should be calling
> > /dev/hda1 or whatever your root partition is instead?
>
> My description was somewhat misleading: I want to write lilo into the
> mbr. I run
> lilo -r /mnt/hda7
> to install the lilo.conf of my debian system residing on
> /dev/hda7. The actual problem seems to be the implicit access to
> /dev/hda by lilo when writing the mbr.

Hi Elias!

if:
You run Knoppix on HD
Your knoppix is on /dev/hda123

try:
Boot with CD
# mount /mnt/hda123
# rm /etc/lilo.conf
# cp /mnt/hda123/etc/lilo.conf   /etc
# mount -o bind /mnt/hda123/boot  /boot
# /sbin/lilo -v

HTH
mkh_sgn

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