Hosed my system. Knoppix won't fix it.

[Bill Davidson]

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.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Joel

/boot is empty? Are you sure it was mounted?

Bill