Re: SATA drive probs: Knoppix OK, but nothing else

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Am 2006-03-17 06:19:58, schrieb Hugo Vanwoerkom:
>
> > sudo: unable to lookup Knoppix via gethostbyname()
> > LILO version 22.6.1, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
> > Development beyond version 21 Copyright (C) 1999-2004 John Coffman
> > Released 17-Nov-2004, and compiled at 12:32:32 on May 25 2005
> > Debian GNU/Linux
> >
> > raid_setup: dev=1605  rdev=0300
> > raid_setup returns offset = 00000000  ndisk = 0
> >  BIOS   VolumeID   Device
> > Reading boot sector from /dev/hda
> > Fatal: open /dev/hda: Permission denied
> >
> > I set the permisions on /dev/hda to:
> >
> > brw-rw-rw-  1 root disk 3, 0 Feb 26  2005 /dev/hda
> >
> >
> > But the error remained.
> > How do I get past those permissions?
>
> Use:    lilo -r /mnt/hdc5
>
> But are you sure, your SATA is /dev/hda?  @me it is /dev/sda

No, the SATA is /dev/sda, but the lilo error pointed to /dev/hda. 
However, under Knoppix that is a guise: it refers to the need to do:
mount -t ext2 /dev/hd<x> /mnt/hd<x>
instead of just
mount /mnt/hd<x>
because of the way Knoppix builds its /etc/fstab.

H