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From: Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
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On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:

RE>On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 03:31:55PM -0700, Gordon Tetlow wrote:
RE>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 02:44:55PM +0200, Harti Brandt wrote:
RE>> >
RE>> > Hi,
RE>> >
RE>> > I just tried to upgrade one of my systems from a static root from july to
RE>> > an actual dynamic root. The installworld went fine 'til the place where
RE>> > /bin/test is installed. At that point the installation stopped with "ELF
RE>> > interpreter /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 not found". And really /libexec is not
RE>> > populated yet. May it be, that the makefile uses one of the newly
RE>> > installed tools during install? For example 'ln' to make the link test ->
RE>> > [?
RE>> >
RE>> > Also, wouldn't it be helpful to populate /rescue before /bin? Just in
RE>> > the case something goes wrong between installing been and rescue for the
RE>> > first time?
RE>>
RE>> A dynamic root is still a little bit of a no seatbelt kind of activity.
RE>> We should probably bring back the ${OBJDIR}/bin/sh test and if we fail,
RE>> install /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 then reattempt the ${OBJDIR}/bin/sh test
RE>> and continue on with life.
RE>>
RE>I've been able to reproduce this, and have just committed a fix for this
RE>into Makefile.inc1.

Nice to hear, thanks.

harti
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