Re: HELP! can't become root

[John Stumbles <john.stumbles@ntlworld.com>]

Thilo Six wrote:

> What you did is:
>
> chmod -R /dev 777 as it seems
>
> where inside /dev is your whole system ( e.g. /dev/hda1)

But surely doing chmod -R /dev/hda1 isn't the same as doing chmod -R / 
(where /dev/hda1 is mounted as /) is it?