How to boot from a secondary hard drive from Knoppix?

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Leon Goldstein wrote:
> Bill Davidson wrote:
> <snip>
>
> >> 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.
> >
> >
>
> >You need to mount it first. AFAIK you can't chroot into a raw device.
>
> I mentioned checking the Knoppix desktop icon for the properties of the partition of interest.
> If it is there, it is mounted, isn't it?

Not in my experience.  All the icons do is indicate that there is a
partition that can be mounted.

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