On Fri, 31 May 2002, Giles Innocent wrote: > Been lurking here for quite a while,
Good to have you on board :) [...] > windows on hda and linux on hdc (hdb [...] > I tried: [much booting] > all to no avail. I get the following message when I attempt to log in: > > BUG IN DYNAMIC LINKER ld.so: dynamic-link.h: 57: elf-get-dynamic-info: > Assertion > '! "bad dynamic tag" failed! > > does this mean that I'm going to have to re-install? Ok, after Googling around, I think I can hazard a guess at what's happening. You system (Debian-2.2) is based on glibc-2.1 (2.1.3 to be precise). The current (cutting edge) version of glibc is 2.2. The binutils package (which includes the linker) was altered to reflect some extra functionality in 2.2, but in (what was believed to be) a compatible way. Turns out it wasn't so compatible, and a patch was needed. I suspect you're getting a conflict between your glibc-2.1 library and the linker that was used to build the rescue images (or something like that). The way around this is to use a one-shop boot image. The most obvious choice is Tom's root&boot disk: http://www.toms.net/rb/ Download and install this onto a floppy --- AFAIK, you'll have to do this on a Linux machine (such as your work PC). Boot off it at home and you should have no problems getting in. Once in do: mkdir /my-linux mount /dev/hdc1 /my-linux chroot /my-linux lilo exit umount /my-linux init 6 --or-- Ctrl + Alt + Del <cross fingers> Et vola. (hope this works ;) Paul. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Particle Physics (Theory & Experimental) Groups Paul Millar Department of Physics and Astronomy [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Glasgow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Scotland http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/paulm +44 (0)141 330 4717 A54C A9FC 6A77 1664 2E4E 90E3 FFD2 704B BF0F 03E9 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
