Grub not starting Windows

Phil Schaffner Philip.R.Schaffner at NASA.gov
Fri Feb 6 21:54:41 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 16:43, antonio montagnani wrote:
> Phil Schaffner wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 04:00, antonio montagnani wrote:
> >  
> >
> >
> >>title DOS
>>snip<<
> >
> 
> Results of
> 
> [visto at localhost visto]$ /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hda
> Impossibile aprire /dev/hda (i.e. Impossible to open /dev/hda translated from Italian..)
> [visto at localhost visto]$
> 
> 
> What does it mean???
> 
Probably that you don't have permission to access /dev/hda.

As an unprivileged user I get:

  [prs at radar0 prs]$ /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hda
  Cannot open /dev/hda


You need to be running as root or on an account with group "disk"?

Phil






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