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Why is my /boot/grub/menu.lst file dening me?

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• Started 11 years ago by ooseven
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   ooseven
   

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   I neber had this problem before trying to edit my /boot/grub/menu.lst file

   It say Permission denied. Why all of a sudden....

   It is a fresh install.

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   lobotazmania
   

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   you can edit anything you want your only login as root or su root password, and no have any trouble.

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   ooseven
   

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   I tried that, this is how I did it:
   open terminal type su
   enter your pass
   then type
   pcmanfm
   go to your /boot/grub directory
   right click menu.lst choose open with leafpad
   now you can edit the file

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   lobotazmania
   

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   i dont know if i understand, but to no have troubles in edit any files just begin a session like root and you no have troubles.

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   ooseven
   

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   Before this all I did is open the terminal
   and typed
   su
   password
   /boot/grub/menu.lst file

   And I could shange the boot.

   But now it says permission denied.

   I have done this many times sense
   I started using slitaz. So I do
   not know why all of a sudden on
   my new install I can not do it
   that way.....

   But I have it done... Always one
   way or another lol

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   gdesilva
   

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   If you do a 'ls -la /boot/grub/menu.lst' it will tell you whether file permissions have been changed. Usually, you would see something like

   -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 986 Jul 20 17:22 menu.lst

   If somehow you managed to change the permissions for this file then that could be one of the reasons why you cannot write to this file.

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   ooseven
   

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   All I did was install slitaz to my hd and now I do not have permission to do that.

   Did not change any thing...

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   Filou
   

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   Did you really type
   # /boot/grub/menu.lst file
   ???

   Since menu.lst IS an ASCII-file, you should open it using an editor.
   This could be nano (cmd-line-driven):

   # nano /boot/grub/menu.lst

   or (graphical)

   # leafpad /boot/grub/menu.lst

   after having switched to root by su and passwd...

   Posted 11 years ago #
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   ooseven
   

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   Yes your are right Filou I'm dadadadada
   nano /boot/grub/menu.lst file is the correct way of doing it.
   And I did it that way many times and it worked. Must be
   getting old, loosing my memory.....

   Thanks

   Posted 11 years ago #

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