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Julian Hall wrote: > > On the Knoppix front I'm not doing too well. I managed to boot into > Knoppix 3.4 Live but I'm not able to get into the relevant partition to > do anything sith it, such as /sbin/lilo to remind it what the correct > mount point is supposed to be. The manual hunt.... for a in 1 2 3 4 5 6 do mkdir /mnt/test$a done mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/test1 mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/test2 ... Hopefully mount will automatically identify the partition type and do the right thing. The "chroot /mnt/testN", "lilo". If you mess up the chroot you should be able to "ctrl+alt+Function key" to get a new window, and either kill the process that is the chroot, or just try again in the new window (don't run out). My blog entry might be handy - although it is for a mirrored pair, hopefully it will inspire you to realise that I forget to run lilo at crucial points to, which is why I run grub as much as possible. Lilo is actually easier to set up first time for mirrored disks, but you pay for it every kernel upgrade you forget to run lilo. http://www.debian-administration.org/users/simonw/weblog/24 Note I have the good sense to exit the chroot, and umount the disk (which flushes outstanding writes) before I hit the power button. Which I forgot to mention above. Simon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html