Hosed my system. Knoppix won't fix it.

[Net Llama!]

On 04/12/03 12:30, Joel Hammer wrote:
> I seem to have hosed my system.
> 
> After rebuilding the kernel, I guess I ought to have run lilo again, for the
> umpteemth time, which I didn't bother doing.
> 
> Now when I try to boot, no matter which image I use, it just hangs up during
> boot. I booted up with knoppix and chroot'ed to my proper root directory.
> When I try to run lilo I am told that /dev/hda is not available or somesuch.
> This is in my lilo.conf
> 
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> 
> I have also noticed that /boot is empty, no map there!
> 
> So, the question is, what is the way to get the system to boot again.

Knoppix makes all file systems read only, which is why you can't fix 
anything.  In order to remount rw you have to right click on the icon 
for the partition, and select the 'remount rw' option (or something 
simlar, i forget thee exact wording).  after that you should be able to 
run lilo ok.

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