Jim,
I might be wrong, but I seem to recall reading somewhere that the shell
the system uses to boot up must be physically present in /bin and not
symlinked to somewhere else like /usr/local/bin. The default setup is
to have /bin/sh symlinked to /bin/bash. This is supposed to be a
security preca
My suggestion:
Get a rescue disk (like the one you used to originally install debian).
If you dont have one handy, use another computer to download an image
from somewhere like www.debian.org and make one, following the instructions.
Boot up with the rescue disk. Dont activate a swap, partition o
Hi,
If your new bash is in /usr/local that's likely the problem. You need a
/bin/sh at boot time. /usr/ won't be mounted until later if it's on a
separate partition. All binaries needed to boot have to be in /bin.
Your filesystem is probably fine, just put a bash back in /bin and things
will lik
Hello ..
I seem to have done something very stupid. If anyone can tell me what
exactly it was that I did wrong, or better still, help me recover what
I'm very afraid might be a hopelessly trashed filesystem, I'd be very
grateful.
The system is Debian 1.3, kernel version 2.0.30
I wanted to upgrad
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