Hosed my system. Knoppix won't fix it.

[David A. Bandel]

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.

boot into knoppix

first, check what you have:
fdisk /dev/hda
use p to show what you have for partitions -- likely one is swap and the
other(s) are linux native.
mount each linux native and look for etc:
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
ls /mnt

when you find etc, you need to read the fstab file.  In it, you probably
have another partition mounted as /boot.  so mount that partition to
/mnt/boot

now run lilo:
lilo -r /mnt

cd /
umount /mnt/boot
umount /mnt

hit the reset button and take out the knoppix disk.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
-- 
Focus on the dream, not the competition.
		Nemesis Racing Team motto
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