Hda1 problems

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Hda1 problems
started by: Count_fuzzball

Posted by Count_fuzzball on Dec. 31 2005,11:32

I'm booting DSL via loadlin,It works a treat!

But i want to make my harddrive(/dev/hda1) read-writeable.

How could i go about doing this?

Posted by skaos on Dec. 31 2005,20:03

If I remember correctly you should add "ro" (without quotes) at the end of the loadlin command. During boot the file system is checked and this requires read-only access, after the check it should automatically be remounted as read-write.

Posted by Count_fuzzball on Jan. 04 2006,11:21

I tried that but it complains that it's a read-only filesystem and then drops me to a limited shell.

Posted by doobit on Jan. 04 2006,16:03

What file system is your hard drive formatted for?

Posted by Count_fuzzball on Jan. 04 2006,17:27

On linux it's vfat and on windows it's FAT32.

Posted by cbagger01 on Jan. 05 2006,18:33

Try adding the word "frugal" to your loadlin append statement.

If this is a frugal or poorman's install, it should work and your hda1 will be mounted with read/write permission at mountpoint /cdrom

Posted by Count_fuzzball on Jan. 05 2006,20:46

Still not working,I get this message at boot:

Chgrp: /Cdrom.Operation not permitted.

Posted by cbagger01 on Jan. 06 2006,03:57

Try removing the "root=/dev/hda1" from your loadlin command string.

Posted by Count_fuzzball on Jan. 06 2006,11:32

I don't boot from a loadlin command string,i boot from a textfile called options.txt via a batch file with this command in it:

'loadlin @options.txt'

Then inside options.txt is:

'linux24
root=/dev/ram
rw
initrd=minirt24.gz
vga=normal
ramdisk_size=100000
init=/etc/init
lang=us
apm=power-off
quiet
BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix'

Posted by Count_fuzzball on Jan. 06 2006,17:05

Right,i've fixed it.

DSL requires me to pass it the 'frugal' parameter which gives me the chgrp error but it still gives me RW access for root,not for user DSL.

'tis very strange.....

Thanks to everybody that helped me for helping me