HD Install :: After Frugal-Grub, hdax no more mounted

I haven't found out any threads in the forum ('this year') about the following.
After a Lilo frugal install (hda1=winxp; hda2=image; hda5=home, opt, mydsl; hda6=swaps), everything works fine, and hda5 has been automatically mounted at dsl start. However, I installed Grub in order to have a boot window in which I can choose to boot winxp on hda1 too. I restart my machine with dsl-live cd; dsl starts, then I make a frugal install from live cd on hda2. I can't find the other options given in the "normal lilo" install I have just done (/usr/sbin/frugal_install.sh), but it should work however.
When finished, everything seems to be ok, dsl restarts (without cd now), but hda5 remains unmounted... I check menu.lst (/koppix/boot/grub/menu.lst); no way to change it; even logged as root and opening beaver as root, menu.lst remains RO, and it seems impossible to change it/i.e. I don't know how to change it. I mean, I can live with hda5 unmonted at dsl start and mount hda5 manually. But if maybe someone already has had the same problem, I would be very glad to learn a possible solution. I thank you all very much for now
yours
Z

Hi ZoOp,
/koppix/boot/grub/menu.lst is the wrong 'menu.lst'. This one is located on the compressed CD-image and thus is RO (as all that starts with /knoppix/...).
The 'menu.lst' you need to modify should be: /mnt/hda2/boot/grub/menu.lst. If this directory doesn't exist there'a a problem with your grub installation - search the forum or the wiki for hints on how to install grub.

If you have the right 'menu.lst' you can add something like:

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title DSL
kernel (hd0,1)/boot/isolinux/linux24 root=/dev/hda2 ro ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init apm=power-off hdb=scsi dma nomce vga=791 fromhd nobootscsi nobootusb frugal home=hda5 opt=hda5 syslog
initrd (hd0,1)/boot/isolinux/minirt24.gz

Parameters above (you decide what to use):
- apm=power-off (for an old pc w/o ACPI to power-off at shutdown)
- hdb=scsi (my CD-ROM is on hdb - switch on SCSI emulation)
- dma (enables dma for ALL drives - could be risky!)
- nomce (sorry, no idea ?)
- vga=791 (high-res, small characters during boot)
- nobootscsi (skip check for SCSI controller - I don't have one, saves time)
- nobootusb (skip check for USB stick - saves time)
- home=hda5 (acc. your post)
- opt=hda5
- syslog (turn on logging to /var/log/messages )

cheers, Jo

Jo,
your are simply the best!
It works wonderfull. I have also learned from you the signification of some cheat codes (those which are unknown of you are also unkown of me, I'm sorry). It simply great to have such a quality support. Thank you again very very much!
Warmest regards
yours
Z

i'm having this problem too

having done a full hd install (not frugal) to hda1 successfully, i wanted to alter my boot options in

boot/grub/menu.lst

but when i open the file with nano or emelfm it is read only (yes i did sudo su). i then tried to mount the drive but get an error about 'not in fstab or mtab'. hda1 also does not show in the slit panel.

i'm confused??

could you help me in making it possible to mount hda1 and thus be able to edit the files on it?

thanks, rob

rob,
as I have a frugal installation I am not quite sure what's going wrong in your case.
For a full HD-install the /boot/grub/menu.lst should be ok - unlike for frugal there is no compressed image and this file should be writable at least by root (sudo su - as you did).
However, this applies only if you have already booted into this installed DSL!!! If you are still working from CDR you still have a compressed image in /boot/grub and you should look into /mnt/hda1/boot/grub. If this is empty, try mounting it with:

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sudo mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1

If you have already successfully booted into your HD-DSL, there are a few things you could check:
1. is your DSL really on hda1? look into /etc/fstab, should contain something like:

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proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1

The fstab lists the relation between devices(partitions) and the mountpoints of the filesystem. The single / means the root (not to be mixed up with user 'root') of the filesystem is located on /dev/hda1. If hda1 is listed in fstab, but with a mountpoint different than / then your filesystem's root is not on hda1.
2. try to mount hda1 manually:

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sudo mkdir /xyz
sudo mount /dev/hda1 /xyz
cd /xyz
ls -al

if you get an error here there's something wrong with your installation.
(to undo above enter:
cd /
sudo umount /xyz
sudo rmdir /xyz
)
3. To make hda1 appear in your slit panel you probably have to add to ~/GNUstep/Defaults/mount.app:

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"mountpoint./mnt/hda1" = {
mountname = hda1;
eject = no;
icontype = hd;
showcapacity = none;
ignore = no;
};

If you don't find a solution, please list your fstab in this thread.
Jo

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