Re: access to /dev/hda denied

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 02:05:45PM +0200, Alexander Schmehl wrote:
> * Steffen Grunewald <[email protected]> [040430 13:18]:
> 
> > 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 
> 
> I'm not sure, but thought knoppix would mount partitions with nodev, so
> chrooting and running lilo will fail, since the devices are not
> accesable.

You're right: the default mounts (which are put into fstab at boot time)
are limited. One has to do the mounts by hand instead.

Cheers,
 Steffen