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From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
To: Bernt Hansson <bah@bananmonarki.se>
Subject: Re: I made a mess. libc
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On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:22:47 +0100
Bernt Hansson <bah@bananmonarki.se> wrote:

> 2013-02-21 18:01, Teske, Devin skrev:
> > Is it the base machine that won't boot? I got this ...
> 
> That is correct. So no cd burning no nothing...Well it want to drop in 
> to a single shell bla bla bla press enter for /bin/sh
> 
> <enter>
> libexec* libc.so.7: invalid file format

	IIRC you get an option at this point to enter a full path to the
shell, enter /rescue/sh which will get you a statically linked shell. You
should then be able to use the tools in /rescue to replace libc provided
you can somehow get a copy of it where you can read it.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>