Re: access to /dev/hda denied

On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 10:19:03 +0000 (UTC)
[email protected] (Elias) wrote:

> Hello everybody,
> 
> I use knoppix as quite a powerful rescue system. Unfortunately I have
> just broken the boot sektor of my laptop and would like to rewrite it
> with knoppix' lilo. Although I am logged in as root on a console, lilo
> reports that access to /dev/hda was denied. What can I do gain access
> to this device?
> 
> Thank you very much for any advice.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Elias

See if it can tell you what the partition table of /dev/hda is:

   fdisk -l /dev/hda

It's possible you've lost the drive instead of simply b0rken the boot
sector. I just lost a drive 2 days ago myself. It was there are at boot
and died in the middle of using it 2 minutes later.

Also, what are you accessing /dev/hda for? Maybe you should be calling
/dev/hda1 or whatever your root partition is instead?

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