I think part maybe all of the problem is the 'chroot' from asmutils. I'm
going to go back to the 'chroot' in busybox and see if that helps. -Tom
On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Tony Nugent wrote:
> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 14:10:51 +1000
> From: Tony Nugent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: TomsRootBootDisk Mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [tomsrtbt] problems with redhat 7.1 based systems
>
> 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
>
