On Thu, Aug 06, 1998 at 01:02:55AM -0700, G. Crimp wrote:
>
> Sorry to be a pain with this, but I want to try one more time for
> help. I recently copied my file system over to a new bigger disk, but I
> can't boot to the new disk. Question and hypothesis first, explanation
> following.
[snip]
> their own partitions:
[snip]
> /lib
[snip]
>
> I'm thinking now that the boot sequence needs something from /etc,
> /bin or /lib that it can't find 'cause it hasn't been mounted yet (see
> below).
[snip]
> INIT: something else that flashes by too quickly to be read.
>
> I tried copying the contents of /bin and /etc to root partition instead of
> having them on their own partitions, but that didn't help. Anyway, init is
> in /sbin which is on the root partition anyway. Should I have /lib on the
> root partition too ?
you NEED /lib available during boot...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ldd /sbin/init
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4000e000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
see..init itself is dynamically linked...without init nothing will work
-Steve
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