Hosed my system. Knoppix won't fix it.

[Collins Richey]

On Sat, 12 Apr 2003 18:36:06 -0400
Joel Hammer <Joel at hammershome.com> wrote:

> > Knoppix mounts all the disk partitions read only, co you have to
> > remount/dev/hda in r/w mode.
> 
> This really confuses me.
> 
> /dev/hda is not a directory or even a partition. It is the boot sector
> of the first hard drive. I could not see how to mount that r/w or how
> that would help me.

Oops, failed to notice that.  You don't mount /dev/hda.  There are no
files of interest to you in the boot sector.


> 
> > When you say "hangs up," are there any messages?
> 
> There were no error messages. It just hung during boot, when loading
> the system. It said something about package or system found at 0 and
> stopped.
> 

Doesn't ring any bells.

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Collins - Slack 9.0 EXT3