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 : jch
Date : Tue Sep 21 2004 08:18 am

"Bit Twister" <BitTwister@localhost.localdomain> wrote in message 
news:slrnckton8.h9e.BitTwister@wb.home.invalid...
> 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

Thanks but doesn't work.     ls -al menu.lst gives me  -rw-------  root 
menu.lst
Any other ideas are welcomed.

I can't seem to change the file (rename it or otherwise).  There's got to be 
a way to boot into my Suse system. I do NOT want to have to go through that 
FTP install again. I do have another Linux system installed (Fedora). Is 
there a way to change the Windows pointer to go to that distro's grub? 
Thanks.

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