Re: netboot via BOOTP

[markus@infoscape.com]

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Ben Leung writes:
 > yes, you're right.  I didn't have the necessary libraries in /lib.
 > After I copied the whole /lib directory to the client's root filesystem,
 > it boots up okay.  But I'm still getting some errors:
 >
 > 	<process> : can't map 'lib/libc.so.5.3.12'
 > 	<process> : can't map 'lib/libc.so.5'
 > 	<process> : can't load library 'libc.so.5'
 >
 > where <process> is the process that is being run, such as ls, ps, more,
 > etc.  I am sure that I have this library in the /lib of the client's
 > root filesystem.  How come it doesn't pick it up?

Have you made sure, that all the symbolic links for the libraries are
in place? Also, make sure that you have entries for "/dev/null" and
"/dev/zero"; these are needed by "/lib/ld-linux.so" (which also has to
be there!) to map library files into memory.


Markus

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