[SOLVED] Re: access to /dev/hda denied

Alexander Schmehl <[email protected]> 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.

Thank you, that was it. Although the warning said:
# lilo -r /mnt/hda7/
Fatal: On open /dev/hda7: Permission denied.
# 

the proper mount options solved the problem. Since just /dev/hda was
mentioned, I just forgot to think about the mount options of /dev/hda7.

Regards,

Elias