In article <199603160753.BAA14497@muirwood.convex.com> "Larry 'Daffy' Daffner" <ldaffner@muirwood.convex.com> writes:
> Actually, there is no problem/bug here, and e2fsck may very well be
> statically linked. The issue here is that even though Slackware
> itself is an ELF distribution, I believe that all the boot/root disks
> are a.out only, with no ELF support. (I suspect this because I noticed
> that libc is libc.so.4.6.something :). At any rate, like was
> suggested, there's a rescue.gz image which has all the tools you
> should need for an emergency repair, and in the future, if you want an
> ELF rescue disk, make your own, and complain to Patrick. :)
You can use YARD to make your own rescue disk. This set of perl script
simplifies the process a lot and you can easily build ELF-only rescue
disks. The scripts know about compressing the RAM disk image and with
a little trickery you can stick all your important tools (bash, gzip,
lilo, chroot, mt, getty, jmacs, tar, ...) plus the kernel on just one
disk. Drop me a note, if you need assistance.
Markus
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