[pocket-linux] Beta testers wanted for GRUB boot disk instructions

[gyuri kerek]

Hi Dave    To clarify matters.In suse8.2 the root
console will revert to the host system if it can.A
concrete example of this is the following which helped
me to clarify how this happened.		
	cd into ~/staging. do 'ls' and it will show the
directories created.do 'cd' into /dev and do 'ls'
again : output is some 2000 files from the host
system,and nothing from ~/staging/dev. Now look at 7th
chapter of PL. Cd into ~/staging: chmod xxx /bin/su.
You think that this is a clear command.It has two
solutions and the system carried both of them out: one
in the root and the second in the staging.Both of them
can be reffered to as /bin/su.If on the other hand we
have chmod xxx ~/staging/bin/su which is what you have
done in chapter 8,that is clear.No more ambiguity.
No worries though, I can check most of the permission
from the mandrakes.There is some difference but not
too much.
All the best  gyuri  --- David Horton
<dhorton at speakeasy.net> wrote: > gyuri kerek wrote:
> >> <gyuriker at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Hi Dave  Have
> tried
> >> your instructions on the grub
> >>disk.Used both sets of instructions.Used the
> kernel
> >>from the lilo disk with a menu.lst.Worked first
> time
> >>and all the help files too.Tried the root disk
> >>too:but
> >>it would only load the root disk read-only.This is
> a
> >>phase6 root disk which works with the lilo boot
> >>disk.	However in working with the phase6 root
> >>disk
> >>I hit a problem .The permissions intended for the
> >>floppy has affected my host
> system(suse8.2-i586).The
> >>result is that I am unable to log into root
> >>applications from my desktop.The cdrom and floppy
> >>drive is also affected.So far have been unable to
> >>solve this.Have checked permissions for /bin/su
> ,but
> >that is alright.Would appreciate some help with
> >>this.Regards Gyuri
> 
> > Hi Dave      Further to my last massage, I have
> worked
> > out why I was not getting anywhere-setting the s
> bit
> > in the permissions.So panic is over for the time
> > being.Thanks anyway.Regards gyuri --- gyuri kerek
> 
> I'm pretty confused on this whole thing.  Are you
> saying that you 
> changed the permissions on your Linux distro instead
> of on the diskette? 
>   If that's the case you might want to check with
> someone who has the 
> same distro and version as you do and verify proper
> ownership and 
> permissions.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
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