On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 11:22:40AM -0700, Sukumar Thirunarayanan wrote:
> I have a bad entry in /etc/ld.so.preload which is causing the init
> program at start up to fail saying
>
> init: error in loading shared libraries
> <bad entry>: cannot map file data: Operation not supported by device
I have done that too. There are two simple ways to fix this.
1) If you have a rescue floppy, boot the machine from the floppy, mount the
hard disk, and delete /etc/ld.so.preload
2) If you have a staticly linked shell on the system you can boot using that
as your init process by typing something like this at the lilo prompt:
linux init=/bin/ash.static
You system will come up to the shell and you can try and remove the file
with out running any external commands. This might work:
echo > /etc/ld.so.preload
This will empty the file. That may be good enough.
Jim
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