-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 06:19:58 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jacob S wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 14:01:02 -0600 > > Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Jacob S wrote: > >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >>> Hash: SHA1 > > > > <snip> > > > > Mount / as in the new root that you said you just installed but > > can't get to boot. Don't forget to also mount /boot if it's not on > > the / partition. > > > > The rationale for the chroot before running lilo is that it works > > better, in my experience. Knoppix is usually a bit newer than Debian > > Stable which can cause some compatability problems, and you already > > mentioned that the lilo in Knoppix was giving you errors. After > > doing a chroot, any commands you run (including lilo) would be > > running the Sarge version that you just installed, rather than > > Knoppix's version. > > > > I tried that, and close but still no sigar... > > modprobe dm_mod is OK. > > Then I mount /mnt/hdc5 where the Sarge partition is, and > chroot /mnt/hdc5. > > When I run sudo /sbin/lilo -v 5 I get: > > sudo: unable to lookup Knoppix via gethostbyname() > LILO version 22.6.1, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger > Development beyond version 21 Copyright (C) 1999-2004 John Coffman > Released 17-Nov-2004, and compiled at 12:32:32 on May 25 2005 > Debian GNU/Linux > > raid_setup: dev=1605 rdev=0300 > raid_setup returns offset = 00000000 ndisk = 0 > BIOS VolumeID Device > Reading boot sector from /dev/hda > Fatal: open /dev/hda: Permission denied > > I set the permisions on /dev/hda to: > > brw-rw-rw- 1 root disk 3, 0 Feb 26 2005 /dev/hda Did you change these permissions for /dev/hda in Knoppix, or in the chroot? I suspect the permissions problem is from Knoppix, not your chroot. > But the error remained. > How do I get past those permissions? > Thanks for your help. For grins, what happens if you su to root before you chroot? Knoppix will let you su without a password, from what I recall. I tend to use root for my admin. tasks, such as running lilo, so I'm not very familiar with how it would work when run from sudo. I know sudo is supposed to allow temporary (and limited) root privileges, but obviously it's not giving full root in this case. HTH, Jacob -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEGtsskpJ43hY3cTURAuOSAJ0dSaHVFkVxEqjWDu30LvTUyARlywCeLcLb ht3cPS5mH9YpJeNJB09VZLM= =oqPt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
