Hi. I'm trying to work my way through the FAQ so that I can fix my dead redhat 9 installation. At present, Grub has died (I edited grub.conf, and even replacing it with a known working file from another machine does not fix things. The computer boots, prints the word GRUB and freezes.

The problem I have is that I have my /boot directory in a partition by itself. Upon booting knoppix, I have two hd partitions, hda1 and hda2. hda1 is the contents of the boot directory.

Just trying to run "grub-install /dev/hda" under knoppix just gives me the error message "read only file system". This is even though I can edit files on the disks.

Would it be possible for me to mount both partitions back into their original structure. E.g.

mount -o dev /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2
mount -o dev /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda2/boot
chroot /mnt/hda2

This should, I hope, give me a writeable version of my original system. I then (I hope) would then be able to

grub-install

(with no arguments) to rebuild my grub partition.

Should this work? As this is our only internet computer at home, I'm now remarkably unpopular. But, I'm also leaving the country for a week on saturday, and if I leave no working computer, I'm likely to be even less popular.

I've read the knoppix faq, but if anyone knows any other resources I should read, I'd like to know about them. And, I'd appreciate any advice that anyone has to offer. Note: this is not actually a multi-boot computer. It only runs redhat 9. So, any solution does not have to result in grub working, providing that the computer will boot.

Thanks in anticipation,

Ross Clement.