The /boot directory

[frankwei]

Hi,

I'm really new to Linux. I'm learning how to make a new linux kernel. When I try to copy the complied image to /boot directory (as the turorial suggested) I saw the "Permission denied" message.

How to make the "boot" directory accessble?

Cheers,

[apoorv_khurasia]

Did you do it as root? Type this command on your prompt and post the output

ls -l /

Post the line which tell us about /boot

[frankwei]

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 632 2007-01-28 01:45 boot

[apoorv_khurasia]

Can you make sure that /boot is not mounted as a read-only partition? Check out /etc/fstab and post the line for /boot here (in case there is one). If not then please follow up.

[frankwei]

when type /etc/fstab

-bash: /etc/fstab: Permission denied

[k_amisi]

The problem is you are running as a non root user, as per your post only teh root user has write permissions.

[apoorv_khurasia]

/etc/fstab is a file. Use vi to open it.

# vi /etc/fstab

[frankwei]

here is the display after type # vi /etc/fstab

/dev/hda5 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda6 /home reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/hda2 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0