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Ok, I was trying to make a grub splashimage, so I modified the menu.lst (/boot/grub). I added this: The splashimage I was making was called mintsplash-blue.xpm.
Now, all of the sudden grub won't load either Windows OR Linux. When I press enter, it just restarts.
I tried using my Knoppix rescue CD, to revert my menu.lst back to what it was (I have a backup), but Knoppix tells me that the filesystem is read-only.
I tried some other live-cd distros, same thing.
Please help me!

PS And by the way grub 'c' key which is supposed to launch the command-line, restarts the computer too.

sourwire wrote:but Knoppix tells me that the filesystem is read-only.

The shell is your friend You have to mount your partitions manually ... just clicking on those stupid desktop icons will mount the disk in question as read-only.

The easiest thing would probably be this:

- boot Knoppix
- click on the one disk icon that represents your harddisk where you need write access to
- open a terminal
- become root: sudo su -
- check what is mounted and where: mount
- You should get a listing, maybe containing a line something like this: Now, as you are root, you can tell it to remount read-write:
mount -o remount,rw /dev/sda5 /mnt/sda5

=> This should give you instant write-access.

!!To be used with extreme caution!!

scorp123, you are the awesomest! My grub is back and running!
Thank you SO much!