Re: Problem with Boot Floppy and libncurses

[Paul Miller <pmiller@unt.edu>]

As I said in my original post, I have put all the appropriate libraries
on the root image. They are in the /lib directory. I have checked this
at least one million times (slight exageration).

So any more thoughts are welcome, thanx.

aphro wrote:
> 
> i believe that it is *bash* complaining that it cannot find
> libnucrses.so.4 a quick check what bash needs:
> 
> [root@aphro /bin] ldd bash
>         libreadline.so.2 => /lib/libreadline.so.2 (0x40014000)
>         libncurses.so.4 => /lib/libncurses.so.4 (0x4003f000)
>         libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4007f000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40083000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
> 
> make sure you have at least all of those libraries in a place where bash
> can read them.
> 
> nate
> 
> On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Paul Miller wrote:
> 
> pmille >I am trying to make my own boot floppy using the 2.2.13 kernel. The kernel and
> pmille >the root image load fine. /etc/inittab will then load bash onto the first
> pmille >console.
> pmille >
> pmille >When bash tries to run I get a shared library error:
> pmille >
> pmille >bash: error in loading shared library
> pmille >libncurses.so.4: cannot open share object file: No such file or directory
> pmille >
> pmille >Now I have made sure that I have all the appropriate shared libraries for all
> pmille >the binaries I will be using on the root image, but what is ncurses complaing
> pmille >about?
> pmille >

-- 
Paul Miller
pmiller@unt.edu

NRL Administrator http://www.nrl.csci.unt.edu
Talons Alumni http://orgs.unt.edu/talons

Where do all the bits go when the computer is done with them?