[pocket-linux] Chapter 3 : no shell

[David Horton]

Bettes wrote:
> Some extra info,
> 
> 1.When I use the ch3-root.image.gz with my boot disket it works.
> 
> 2.When I copy ch3-root.image.gz to a ramdisk, and replace the lib files with 
> my libfiles, I have te same problem: no shell
> 
> 3.When I copy ch3-root.image.gz to a ramdisk, and replace the bash file with 
> my bash file I got the following error:
> 
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 48k freed
> /bin/sh: /lib/libc.so.6: version 'GLIBC_2.3' not found (required by /bin/sh)
> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
> 
> So now I have the feeling that it all boils down to a problem with the 
> libraries.
> 
> All suggestions are welcome :-)
> 
> Bettes
> 

This happened to me once when I built the diskette image on my faster 
Pentium III machine and tried to run it on my old Pentium (586) laptop. 
  I figured out that it was because of the libraries.  Redhat 9 on my 
P-III machine has i686 libraries that apparently do not run on the old 
i586.

If this is your situation as well you can try using non-i686 libraries. 
  You can either find them on your distribution or grab a precompiled 
i386 glibc package from here: 
http://www.happy-monkey.net/architect/bin-pkgs.

Good Luck,
Dave