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Posted: Nov. 07 2006,10:53 QUOTE
Hi everybody,

I am dsl and Linux beginner.

I need the "acpi=off" to run my frugal hard drive installation of dsl. I can edit the command line in the Grub interface when I start the system.

But I cannot edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file because of "read only file". Even in the terminal, I use the command
"sudo su", then
"vi menu.lst" : I get a warning "read only file".

It is the same with chmod, even if I am logged as Root.
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Posted: Nov. 07 2006,13:23 QUOTE
You need to edit from the /boot folder on the root of the drive. If your frugal is on hda1 for example, your /mnt/hda1/boot/grub folder is where you will want to go. I think you can also access this from /mnt/cdrom but can't remember for sure.

Chris
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Posted: Nov. 07 2006,14:39 QUOTE
That would be /cdrom - in a regular frugal installation, this would be already mounted as rw.
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Posted: Nov. 07 2006,15:00 QUOTE
Quote (^thehatsrule^ @ Nov. 07 2006,08:39)
That would be /cdrom - in a regular frugal installation, this would be already mounted as rw.

You're right. Thanks, Hats!
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Posted: Nov. 10 2006,02:29 QUOTE
Quote (clivesay @ Nov. 07 2006,08:23)
You need to edit from the /boot folder on the root of the drive. If your frugal is on hda1 for example, your /mnt/hda1/boot/grub folder is where you will want to go. I think you can also access this from /mnt/cdrom but can't remember for sure.

Chris

Hello I instlled DSL to my hard drive and need to make the same change. ALso the GRUB does not give me the choice for windows. I can get to the menu.1st file in dsl but cant edit it.
   The other post says that I need to edit it in the grub folder, which I can get to, but what do i need to do to edit it? How do i open it  for editing once I am there?
Thanks.
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