Problem with Grub on someone eles hard Drive.

[Andrew Mathenge]

I'm not sure that I understand your approach. You are saying that you've
attached a second drive (which had a copy of Ubuntu 7.04) to your computer
(running Ubuntu 7.10) and were able to mount it. So, you have storage
located at, say, /media/disk2.

You are able to navigate the filesystem. You are able to open existing
files. You are able to create new files.

You then switch to /media/disk2/boot/grub and try to make changes to
menu.lst but you are unable.

Have you checked the ownership and permissions on that file? What do they
look like?

Andrew.

On Dec 18, 2007 7:02 PM, Alfred <alfred.s at nexicom.net> wrote:

> Hi:
>
> Yesterday, I learnt how to re-write a Grub Script on my Computer because
> one of my Hard drives failed, and booting up caused an Error. So I
> Opened up my Terminal and did a sudo su - entered my Password. then I CD
> ed to /boot/grub and made the changes and then saved the changes that I
> made, getting rid of the lines that referred to the OS on the hard drive
> that failed.
>
> Today a Hard drive in another Computer here stopped working, and Grub
> was Expecting to see Windows on the C Drive, but now it is not there. So
> the Drive that was the Slave drive is now the master Drive, and the
> Slave Drive is gone. We can't load Ubuntu 7.04 on this computer anymore
> because there is an error at bootup. I put that Drive on my Computer and
> was able to get into it with my 7.10. How ever the Password for that
> Drive is different than my Password. I need to be the Root for 7.04 to
> make the changes to Grub. Problem is on my Machine I am the root for
> 7.10, and so don't have permission to make changes to the 7.04 Drive,
> and then save them to the /boot/Grub/ folder in 7.04.
>
> Anyone there know how to become the r00t in 7.04 when it is attached to
> a 7.10 Computer? I know Passwd that is when you have lost the password
> allows you to gain entry as root, so that you can get a new password. Or
> I could just Wipe the drive, and put 7.10 on it in this other Computer.
>
> Or I could try to boot from that Drive on my Computer, but I have
> different Video components.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Alfred!
>
>
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