There, of course, is this problem, and I need some help with it. Once
I get a kernel booted, a RAM disk loaded, and a login: prompt, the
next thing I do is mount my normal hard disk, as /mnt. I can then cd
to various places under /mnt, and everything looks OK. However, if I
cd to /mnt/bin, then enter "./gzip -help", I get "./gzip: not found".
The "not found" error occurs with most, but not all, binaries. For
example, "top" works OK.
When I rebooted with my usual kernel, I did "ldd gzip" and got:
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40002000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /usr/local/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x2aaaa000)
"ldd top" gives:
libproc.so.1.2 => /lib/libproc.so.1.2 (0x40002000)
I was led to suspect that this was a shared library issue. The /etc
directory that is created by tomsrtbt has an ld.so.cache file. It, of
course, would not reference anything in /mnt/lib. (I have tried
setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH, by the way.) So, the next time I tried out
tomsrtbt, I copied /mnt/etc/ld.so.conf to /etc, edited /etc/ld.so.conf
to add /mnt/lib, and ran ldconfig. (ldconfig is another one of my
binaries that works; ldd gives "not a dynamic executable".) As far as
I can tell, ldconfig did what it was supposed to do; /etc/ld.so.cache
now contains lots of /mnt/lib files. This, however, did not make my
"not found" error go away.
Any ideas?
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Bob Broughton
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Vancouver, BC, Canada