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Quoting Julian Hall <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Simon Williams wrote:DOH! I should have realised. The running kernel needs sysfs support. Apparently knoppix doesn't (perhaps your version is too old?).I was using Knoppix 3.4You're going to need a pretty new kernel with sysfs and udev support. This had better work.Agreed! :)SimonWooohoo!!! I downloaded Ubuntu 5.1 Live and tried that. After a couple of false starts working out how to do root type stuff on it, it worked!!!! mount -t ext2 /dev/hda8 /mnt/hda8 (had to make the point first - no biggie :)) chroot /mnt/hda8 mount /proc mount -t sysfs none /sys udevstart ls /dev/hda* (YIPPEE howl at results) /sbin/lilo Complained about directories not matching a lot, but did it. Rebooted. I now have Windows XP Pro *AND* Xandros working on the laptop. Even the trackpad works in this version (it needed poking in 3.0.1). Many thanks to all who offered suggestions and help, especially for your patience (when I was losing mine!) :) Julian
Good to hear you've fixed it. I was going to suggest that if you live near anyone else from the LUG, maybe you could have popped over to see them for some help.
Rob
PS Knoppix' first name isn't Mary is it? Spell checker tried to change it to 'Poppins'.. LOL!
LOL Maybe Knoppix is German for Poppins? :D Rob - The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html