On Sat, 12 Apr 2003 15:30:51 -0400 Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
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