Subj : Re: How to Modify menu.lst file when I don't have permission
To   : alt.comp.linux,comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux
From : Bit Twister
Date : Mon Sep 20 2004 03:02 pm

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 08:44:04 -0400, jch wrote:
> I've just installed Suse on my machine which already had Fedora and XP. I've 
> some how managed to screw up the menu.lst file and now I can't boot into 
> anything but XP which entirely defeats the purpose of having installed Linux 
> to begin with. I can access the file system with my Knoppix disk and I can 
> get to the menu.lst file but I can't write to it. I don't have permission. 
> The file is set as rw -- -- --. I can read it by mnt/hda6/boot/grub and 
> vi'ing the file but I can't change anything.
> How can I edit the menu.lst file and thus solve my boot up problems? 

Just for fun try

chown root:root menu.lst
chmod 644 menu.lst

and show us what it has with
ls -al menu.lst

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