On 2008-07-06 at 15:57:54 [+0200], Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote: [...] > In any case, you need access permissions to the disk itself and also to the > partition when you build. The build system should take care of makebootable > itself. This is what I do before I attempt to build: > > sudo chmod o+rw /dev/sda; sudo chmod o+rw /dev/sda6 > > I think the permissions on the /dev/sda device are too permissive, maybe > others can be more specific. Do not attempt to do the entire build as root. Read permission suffices on /dev/sda. CU, Ingo