What about netbooting a lif image from the ESIEE people? http://pateam.esiee.fr/cd-images/lifimages - exit the installation - mount your local disk - chroot to the disk - install/compile newer kernel Should work ;)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin-�ric Racine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Randolph Chung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 10:24 AM Subject: recovering from a failed libc6 upgrade On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Randolph Chung wrote: > It is an unfortunate fact that failed glibc upgrades are often not easy > to recover from, since most anything on the system depend on it. Your > best bet probably is to try to boot a 2.4.19 kernel if you can. How? I cannot load one from floppy, since we don't have floppy support. > Or, you may have some success booting into sash and running dpkg manually to > downgrade glibc. That's not installed by default, is it? I tried passing init=/bin/sash by adding it on the fly using IPL. Fails. The kernel still says it tried killing init. Any help is appreciated. -- Martin-�ric Racine "Kas sa tahad mind? - Nej!!! �r du en idiot?!!" http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/ Tallinn, Eesti; Espoo, Suomi. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
