Re: access to /dev/hda denied

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 10:19:03AM +0000, 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?

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 


HTH, Steffen

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