I'm very new to the world of Knoppix. I clobbered my lilo.conf file on RH 6.2, so I
thought I would restore it with Knoppix. I fired it up with the default (lang=us) and
mounted the file system, /dev/hda8 with lilo.conf on it. I then edited the file in
/etc/ but couldn't save it. I then used the desktop icon menu for /dev/hda8 to
umount, mount, and change to write. This seems to have worked fine. I then tried
writing to /etc/, but was blocked because I didn't have permission. What to do?
--
Wayne T. Watson (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N, 2,701 feet, Nevada City, CA)
-- GMT-8 hr std. time, RJ Rcvr 39° 8' 0" N, 121° 1' 0" W

"What is now proved was only once imagin'd." -- William Blake

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W. Watson <wolf_tracks@invalid.inv> wrote:
You should update, this is a pretty old/buggy version.

The usual way using Knoppix, open some xterm 'sudo -s' && 'su -'
to become root. Mount your root file system to /mnt, mount all
other fs to /mnt/<mountpoint>, now 'chroot /mnt', edit
/etc/lilo.conf, use 'lilo -v' to rewrite the MBR, leave the
chroot environment, reboot, done.

--
Michael Heiming

Remove +SIGNS and www. if you expect an answer, sorry for
inconvenience, but I get tons of SPAM

Thanks. I presume you mean update RH rather than Knoppix? I finally stumbled across a
pulldown menu with an item called root shell. That got me to the root where I was
then able to modify the lilo.conf file. I would guess that I don't have to rewrite
the MBR. I was in the process of building a realtime kernel per some instructions
given to me, and misinterpted what was supposed to be done to the lilo.conf file.
When I tried to boot again, it would just repeat the boot. I just discovered that for
some reason the bzImage I was supposed to copy to the place where image= was supposed
to find it. I'm now copying it again and will fire all this up and see what happens.

BTW, I'm running a multi-boot system: W2000, DOS and RH 6.2.

Michael Heiming wrote:

--
Wayne T. Watson (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N, 2,701 feet, Nevada City, CA)
-- GMT-8 hr std. time, RJ Rcvr 39° 8' 0" N, 121° 1' 0" W

"What is now proved was only once imagin'd." -- William Blake

Web Page: <home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews>
sierra_mtnview -at- earthlink -dot- net
Imaginarium Museum: <home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews/imaginarium.html>

"W. Watson" <wolf_tracks@invalid.inv> writes:


_Where_ did you mount it?
Probably " mount /dev/hda8 /mnt " ?

Try " /mnt/etc "

If you did so, please ignore my thoughts and give us clearer input

Good luck, Holger

W. Watson <wolf_tracks@invalid.inv> wrote:
Yep, that version is rather outdated.

You NEED with lilo, that's what 'lilo -v' does. And that's the
reason you should chroot from Knoppix to your installed system.

Hint:
man lilo
man lilo.conf
man chroot

Post your lilo.conf if you can't figure it out.

Welcome to the group

BTW
Please stop top posting.

Scroll a bit down to this post:

A new reader? Welcome to comp.os.linux.misc, read this first if
you're new here (FAQ)


--
Michael Heiming

Remove +SIGNS and www. if you expect an answer, sorry for
inconvenience, but I get tons of SPAM

Thanks for the help, but even at that I draw the line at bottom vs top posting
requests. Personally, I've been top posting for 8 years or more on newsgroups. I
never complain in whatever fashion people exchange messages with me. I can follow
top, cross, or bottom. My preference is top post. Sorry, can't stand e-mail cops. My
philosophy is to answer people's questions and make them welcome. The task is not to
alienate newcomers. As far as I know you have no ability to enforce the top bottom
rule and not likely anything else. But rather than contend with your many rules (I
just read some of them, and already practice many.) and draw swords on the issue each
time we or anyone else in this group bumps into one another, I will bid you adieu and
thank you for the help you've already given me. It's just not worth it to me.

Wayne "The somewhat iconoclastic" Watson

Michael Heiming wrote:

--
Wayne T. Watson (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N, 2,701 feet, Nevada City, CA)
-- GMT-8 hr std. time, RJ Rcvr 39° 8' 0" N, 121° 1' 0" W

"What is now proved was only once imagin'd." -- William Blake

Web Page: <home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews>
sierra_mtnview -at- earthlink -dot- net
Imaginarium Museum: <home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews/imaginarium.html>

W. Watson <wolf_tracks@invalid.inv> wrote:
A matter of netiquette not of anyone's preference/feelings,

however I don't feel like arguing with you.

--
Michael Heiming

Remove +SIGNS and www. if you expect an answer, sorry for
inconvenience, but I get tons of SPAM

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On 2003-12-11, W. Watson <wolf_tracks@invalid.inv> wrote:
No, but he and many others have the ability to ignore people who whine
when asked to follow agreed-upon netiquette. Do you really want to
narrow the audience of people who might help you just because you don't
want to post the way most others in the newsgroup do?

[whining about top-posting, and excessive .sig, snipped]

- --keith

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(try just my userid to email me)
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In <813brb.qik.ln@goaway.wombat.san-francisco.ca.us>, Keith Keller:

Fer example: I blew right past the post not only for topping, but no line
wraps within a typical 80-column page layout. Oh well...

--

Regards, Weird (Harold Stevens) * IMPORTANT EMAIL INFO FOLLOWS *
Pardon any bogus email addresses (mklog*) in place for spambots.
Really it's (wyrd) at raytheon, dotted with com. DO NOT SPAM IT.
Standard Disclaimer: These are my opinions not Raytheon Company.

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 02:02:30 GMT, "W. Watson" <wolf_tracks@invalid.inv> wrote:

.... and the same for your opinions

--
/// Michael J. Tobler: motorcyclist, surfer, skydiver, \\\
\\\ and author: "Inside Linux", "C++ HowTo", "C++ Unleashed" ///
Sauron is alive in Argentina!

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 01:38:40 GMT, stevens@mklog4.rsc.raytheon.com (#Harold Stevens US.972.952.3293) wrote:

..... yep ... heck, i thought they were an AOL'er )

--
/// Michael J. Tobler: motorcyclist, surfer, skydiver, \\\
\\\ and author: "Inside Linux", "C++ HowTo", "C++ Unleashed" ///
Whenever anyone says, "theoretically", they really mean, "not really".
-- Dave Parnas

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 01:04:05 +0100, Michael Heiming wrote:

=>W. Watson <wolf_tracks@invalid.inv> wrote:
=>> Thanks for the help, but even at that I draw the line at bottom vs top posting
=>> requests. Personally, I've been top posting for 8 years or more on newsgroups. I
=>> never complain in whatever fashion people exchange messages with me. I can follow
=>> top, cross, or bottom. My preference is top post. Sorry, can't stand e-mail cops. My
=>
=>A matter of netiquette not of anyone's preference/feelings,
=>
=>however I don't feel like arguing with you.
=>
=>--
=>Michael Heiming

The fact that W Watson refers to people who request
nettiquette compliance as "cops" indicates he has serious
issues. Anyone who asserts his dubious "individuality" by
refusing to behave politely needs help.

As Prof. Rose, late prof at U of A Edmonton, used to say
(paraphrased: "Rebelling against conventions is a cop
out. If you really want to change the world, take on the
big guys. If you dare."

I ignore top posts.

--
Wolf Kirchmeir
If you didn't want to go to Chicago, why did you get on the train?
(Garrison Keillor)
<just one w and plain ca for correct e-mail address>

Wolf Kirchmeir <wwolfkir@sympatico.can> wrote:
[..]
Usually I try to give a few hints/links why top posting is a
rather bad thing(tm).

But then I don't care anymore, just another winbloze idiot.

--
Michael Heiming

Remove +SIGNS and www. if you expect an answer, sorry for
inconvenience, but I get tons of SPAM

Michael Heiming wrote:
For the OP: it's all written down in the "Netiquette Guidelines" (RFC
1855) from the Internet Engineering Task Force (http://www.ietf.org/).