installing lili or grub

[johndoesacc]

I had kinda the same problem and it seemed that setting dev as an option and not nodev worked... Well, i am yet to reboot and check, plus i don't know if the warning is gonna affect anything... i hope it works... thx for the help guys...

root@ttyp0[knoppix]# mount -o nodev /mnt/hda2
root@ttyp0[knoppix]# chroot /mnt/hda2/ lilo
Fatal: open /dev/hda: Permission denied
root@ttyp0[knoppix]# umount /mnt/hda2
root@ttyp0[knoppix]# mount -o dev /mnt/hda2
root@ttyp0[knoppix]# chroot /mnt/hda2/ lilo
Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not exist, disk scan bypassed
Added Linux *
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[johndoesacc]

It worked like a charm...

I'd wish people would add these forum results to the error messages when it happens... It would be nice if every error message had a link to a index of forum threads regarding that particular error or if it had possible solutions... In this case it could have said "you might have to mount it with dev" or "the device isn't mounted with the dev option"... Oh, well. I guess we all dream of an age where linux is easy and friendly at first and AFTERWARDS has the possibilities it has now...