Hosed my system. Knoppix won't fix it.
Collins Richey
erichey2
Mon May 17 11:46:29 PDT 2004
On Sat, 12 Apr 2003 15:30:51 -0400
Joel Hammer <Joel at hammershome.com> 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 mounts all the disk partitions read only, co you have to remount
/dev/hda in r/w mode.
When you say "hangs up," are there any messages?
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Collins - Slack 9.0 EXT3
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