Hosed my system. Knoppix won't fix it.

[Brett I. Holcomb]

One trick I found with Knoppix is once you get a prompt do an su -.  After 
that you are really root and can do what you need - assuming you mount 
stuff rw.

Joel Hammer wrote:

> Fudgetta bout it.
> For reasons unclear, my old kernel seems to be blown away, too.
> So, I have to reinstall lindows.
> And I'll forget about getting the Zire to work with linux. 8 hours is
> enuf. BTW, knoppix was far from ideal as a rescue disk. It has security
> restrictions which limit its usefulness.
> Joel
> 
> 
> IOn Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 03:30:51PM -0400, 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.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Joel
>> 
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