Re: Error 127 in install of glibc 2.2.3

[Wil Cooley <wcooley at nakedape dot cc>]

Thus spake Minko Markov:
> Allin Cottrell wrote:
> ......
> > You want to ensure that /sbin/ldconfig gets run early in the boot
> > process.  You may be able to run it from a rescue diskette.  If
> > your system is mounted on /mnt relative to the rescue ramdisk you
> > could try:
> ......
> 
> I am sorry if the question I ask is dumb, but how can you boot
> from a diskette, when the C lib is corrupted? AFAIK, the diskette
> simply let's you boot the kernel that is on it, and then the root file
> system of the HD is mounted, and then the control is transfered
> to /sbin/init, which needs the C lib.  Notwithstanding that,
> the shell that you'd use after booting from a diskette needs glibc.

Not all boot disks.  Some contain an entire mini-distro on them,
like Tomsrtbt, which you can then use to mount your damaged from-disk
system and fix it.

Wil
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