Hosed my system. Knoppix won't fix it.

[Net Llama!]

On 04/12/03 15:31, Joel Hammer wrote:
> It seemed that even as root, I couldn't do things easily from a virtual
> console. I was really nonplussed at the problem of lilo not being able to access
> /dev/hda after chroot.
> 
> I wanted to then alter the lilo.conf that comes with knoppix, hoping I could
> change it to what I needed to boot my system. But, I couldn't edit
> /etc/lilo.conf, it was a read only system. I suppose that was on the cdrom,
> but, I just don't know.
> 
> In any event, knoppix wouldn't let me run lilo properly to fix my boot
> problem. 

It would if you had remounted your / filesystem read-write.  There's 
nothing wrong with Knoppix.

> 
> Joel
> 
> 
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 02:30:35PM -0700, Net Llama! wrote:
>> On 04/12/03 13:46, Joel Hammer wrote:
>> > BTW, knoppix was far from ideal as a rescue disk. It has security
>> > restrictions which limit its usefulness.
>> 
>> such as??

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