On Apr 10, 5:20 pm, Andrew Sackville-West <and...@farwestbilliards.com> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 06:12:22AM -0700, Vwaju wrote: > > Out of the blue, Debian failed to boot. > > > I have loaded debian-live-500-i386-rescue.iso, and now I would like to > > mount the boot partition /dev/hda1 and...oops, I can't mount /dev/hda1 > > without root permission, and I can't get root permission without > > access to hard drive! > > > Is there a way out of this fly-bottle? > > you shouldn't need the hard drive to get root. I've never done it from > a debian-live cd, usually using knoppix for this sort of stuff. But, > check here: > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/FAQ#Q.3AWhatistheroot.2BAC8-userpas... > > hth > > A > > signature.asc > < 1KViewDownload
Thanks, Andrew. I belatedly read this FAQ, and I was able to to mount the boot partition. I just posted the next question about "diagnostics". Best, Vwaju NYC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
