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



can anybody shed some light on my previous posts re. unmounted hd after full install? i did another install today to see if there was something i overlooked, but i can't see it.

the install works ok apart from the drive i installed to (hda1) is read only and no matter what i try i cannot make it rw.

hope someone can help.....
Brian,
'df -h'  was new to me and it IS easier to read - thanks for this one!

Rob,
to be honest I am also confused, now let's see...
Your 'mount' says /dev/hda1 is RW at least to the one who has the right to. What exactly are you doing to write to /boot/grub/menu.lst ?

Don't know how familiar you are with Linux and you call yourself a noob, but seems you are seeking for challenges :) : 'managed to install jre 1.5.0.05 and limewire lastnight (both from .bin files)'. So here is step by step, what I would do:

Open a terminal as root (via Fluxbox menu > XShells > Root Access) and:
root@box:~# whoami
root
root@box:~# cd /boot/grub
root@box:/boot/grub# ls -al
drwxrwxr-x    2 root     root         1024 Jul 30 11:47 .
dr-xr-xr-x    4 root     root         1024 Jul 11 21:49 ..
-rw-rw-r--    1 dsl      staff          30 Jul 11 21:41 device.map
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         7904 Jul 11 21:55 e2fs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         7440 Jul 11 21:55 fat_stage1_5
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         6912 Jul 11 21:55 ffs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         8640 Jul 11 21:55 jfs_stage1_5
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     root         1506 Aug  1 11:52 menu.lst
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         7104 Jul 11 21:55 minix_stage1_5
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         9568 Jul 11 21:55 reiserfs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          512 Jul 11 21:55 stage1
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        95712 Jul 11 21:55 stage2
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         6560 Jul 11 21:55 vstafs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         9320 Jul 11 21:55 xfs_stage1_5
root@box:/boot/grub# nano menu.lst     (or  vi  menu.lst, whatever you like better)
 
Now do your changes, in nano then  ctrl-O , <enter> , ctrl-X,  (or in vi:  ZZ)  and

root@box:/boot/grub# ls -l menu.lst
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     root         1507 Oct 26 21:48 menu.lst

If for some reason menu.lst is RO, e.g. looks like that
-r--r--r--    1 root     root         1507 Oct 26 21:48 menu.lst
you can change access modes before editing:
root@box:/boot/grub# chmod ug+w menu.lst   (allows write for user and group, however, normally for root this isn't needed )

If for some reason menu.lst has another owner, e.g. looks like that
-rw-r--r--    1 virus    trojan         1507 Oct 26 21:48 menu.lst
you can change user and group before editing:
root@box:/boot/grub# chown root:root menu.lst   (however, normally for root this isn't needed )

And if you see this on the screen:
root@box:/boot/grub# ls -al
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root           80 Oct 26 21:28 .
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root          100 Oct 26 21:28 ..
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           29 Oct 26 21:28 device.map -> /KNOPPIX/boot/grub/device.map
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           27 Oct 26 21:28 menu.lst -> /KNOPPIX/boot/grub/menu.lst
then you have a 'frugal HD install' i.s.o. a 'full HD install', but I think we have checked that before with 'mount' :).

Hope this helps in some way,
Jo
now then

thanks again for your response jo. here is where i come with the contrition.

i went to bed late last night, still with the same problem, woke up this morning and cd'd into /boot/grub after sudo su-ing, nano-ed menu.lst and it was writeable. I have tried to emulate what must have been a human error on my part but cannot. so, sorry for the long posts u gave, but thankfully all is well in dsl town. its been a good learning experience tho...

:D

thanks again jo, off to sort out the ess 1869 soundcard now... lol

original here.