urgent help needed--can't start a shell!
Hi,
In an earlier plea for help, I mentioned that after using dselect, I ran
into some dependency problems, which also screwed up bash/sh.
It was suggested that I use the rescue floppy and run dpkg manually to fix
things up -- unfortunately, right now, the rescue floppy isn't helping at
all, because it mounts the hd and runs stuff from there...
I get an error like the following when trying to login as root:
login[]: can't login to /dev/tty1 for user root -- Illegal seek
How can I fix my system without having to run stuff from the hd?
Can I somehow boot a shell from a floppy, mount my hd, and then run dkpg
from there? I tried booting the rescue, loading a root disk into a
ramdrive, and then mounting my harddrive, but I can't run dpkg because it
can't find any of the shared libraries! (like sysinfo or something like
that)
Please, ANY help would be appreciated...
Eric
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