Well, I'm able to boot again, although everything is not pretty.
I installed Slackware 4 on an empty partition, printed /lib/*, mounted
the old Slack 4 and printed /mnt/lib/*. I repointed ld-linux.so.2 and
libc.so.6 from ld-2.1.3.so to ld-2.0.7.so, and libBrokenLocale.so.1
from libBrokenLocale-2.1.3.so to libBrokenLocale-2.0.7.so.
> > > Do you still have libc-2.1.2.so?
The new install doesn't have libc-2.1.2.so either. It must use
libc-2.0.7.so instead.
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 272384 Oct 5 1998 libc.so.5.4.46*
I deleted this and copied the new one to the old one. I did the same
with libtermcap.so.2.0.8 even though in this case the date and byte
count were identical, but that is what finally let me boot the old
install. Could that file have been changed by my improper shutdown,
even though its date did not change? If so, I'm not sure which other
files I can trust. Upon booting, the mouse was "flashing" black and
white, as though it were selecting and unselecting large blocks of
text, so I commented out gpm. I have no passwords. When I logged in
as root I was not prompted for a password and I had to run adduser to
get access to my old user account. Other things are not working well
either but I haven't changed all of the symbolic links yet.
Thanks for you help, this list is great.
Kurt
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