On Mon Sep 10 2001 at 19:51, Tom Oehser wrote:
> I'll have to get RedHat 7.1 and try it. -Tom
I can confirm this behaviour with both redhat 7.0 and 7.1, I can't
run a chroot'ed /sbin/lilo successfully on them. Believe me, I've
tried. (I'm sure that I've mentioned this problem in previous
emails to this list).
(The rh7.1 installer's "rescue" mode is what I now tend to use for
this. The new rescue mode is a big improvemt -- but it doesn't
yet seem capable of doing a netboot.img network-based rescue mode,
only via a local cdrom).
In fact, I can't even chroot into a rh7.1 installation at all, the
chroot'ed /bin/sh (/bin/bash) shell (or glibc) complains about
things that it needs not being implemented in the running kernel.
It appears that the 2.0.x kernel in tomsrtbt (and probably all 2.2.x
kernels) are no longer able to do this sort of thing with systems
that are configured to use 2.4.x kernels. The problem is probably
even more invoved that this, eg (g)libc with changed kernel ioctl
calls and so on.
(Please tell me that I'm wrong... )
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Simon Crute wrote:
>
> > Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 00:14:15 +0100
> > From: Simon Crute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [tomsrtbt] problems with redhat 7.1 based systems
> >
> > Hi,
> > I've got a problem using the rb disk to run lilo on a redhat 7.1 based
> > system.
> >
> > The lilo version is 21.4-4
> > The kernel version is 2.4.7
> >
> > when I run
> >
> > chroot /mnt/new /sbin/lilo -v
> >
> > I get the following error message
> > LILO version 21.4-4, Copywrite .......
> > 'lba32' extentions Copywrite .......
> > fstat /etc/lilo.conf: Function not implemented
> >
> > Am I doing something wrong, or is it a bug ?
> >
> > I can boot the redhat CD and re-run lilo, but I figured I'd tell you guys
> > about it incase it was a bug. (if you care, it is redhat after all :-) )
Cheers
Tony
