[nylug-talk] Knoppix HD install boot block

[Kevin Mark]

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On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 04:07:20PM -0500, Seth Rothenberg wrote:
> I used the knoppix-installer...
> and it doesn't seem to have installed a working boot block.
> 
> 
> I tried a few tricks, eg chroot to the mounted /dev/sda1
> etc, tried to lilo, did not succeed.
> 
> Is there a way to tell knoppix to fix the boot record?
> 
> (Or re-install the whole system correctly for a change? :-)
> (I tried twice, to make sure I didn't accidentally decline)
> 
> Thanks
Hi Seth,
if you do not mount the root filesystem as read/write and then do the
lilo (or grub), it will not work. Knoppix (the last time I checked) did
not mount things read/write by default. I recall having to:
umount
mount 
and then
lilo (or grub-update)
Cheers,
Kev
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