HDD Install gone bad

[bonkas]

Ok it's been a while but today I was fiddling around with a few things and was able to change the file using this command..

sudo mount /dev/hd?? /mnt/hd??
sudo favorite_editor /mnt/hd??/etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh

Now I am able to boot from hard drive fine with no problems.. well almost no problems..lol

First problem I have it that when I start up I get this error...

"/dev/hda2 has gone 49709 days without being checked, check forced"

This takes quite some time to complete and it happens everytime I boot up...

I was thinking that the problem coud be that it cant tell knoppix that it has already done the check once before because my hard drive is read only. So that leads to the next question..

How do I make my hard drive writable when the computer starts up?

And I notice I can change any file permissions or anything while logged in as knoppix user but I can change file permissions while in root user but that doesent help me since I cant change any files anyway hehe..

Hope you guys can help.

[mr_ed]

Hey, glad you could get it going!

when I start up I get this error...

That's not an error, that's a feature!

How do I make my hard drive writable when the computer starts up?

$ cat /etc/fstab to see how it's set up there. If, however it happened, the line that the drive is on has ro, then that's the problem. With su or sudo or however you log in as root, delete that option.

Also check to make sure it doesn't have the noauto option. If that's there, then delete that too.

Now, next time you boot, the drive should come up read/write.

Then, still as root, type

# mount -a

to automatically mount everything in /etc/fstab that is automountable (that is, everything that doesn't have the noauto option).

Get back out of root, and the drive should now be mounted read/write for you to use without needing to reboot.

Let us know if this doesn't work.

-- Ed