How to boot from a secondary hard drive from Knoppix?

Leon Goldstein metapsych
Mon Jan 24 20:17:45 PST 2005


Jesus Antonio Santos Giraldo wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I managed to fry my first IDE Hard Drive (I think), where LILO was
>installed.
>
>My linux partitions are in my second hard drive and I hope they are intact.
>
>So how to boot my linux system which is in my second hard drive if I can't
>boot from my primary hard drive (the suspected fried one)?
>
>Hint: I can boot a Knoppix/Damn-small CD and I'm actually trying to figure
>it out how to acomplish this.
>
>Any help, as usual, will be VERY APPRECIATED.
>
>J.
>
Boot up Knoppix, check how Knoppix identifies your drives by looking at
the properties of the drive/partition icons.  Next, open a terminal and
obtain Knoppix root privileges with the command: sudo su
Then command changeroot /dev/hdbX  (where X is the partition you want to
work in).

SORRY:  that should be chroot, not changeroot.

Got to fix this before Net Llama! jumps all over me.

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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