How to boot from a secondary hard drive from Knoppix?

[Michael Hipp]

Net Llama! wrote:
> 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.

Lonni is correct. If you right-click the icon, it gives the option to 
mount the partition. Note that it will be mounted ro. Once mounted there 
is a further right-click option to remount it rw. IIRC.

Michael