Re: upgrade from static to dynamic root

On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 02:44:55PM +0200, Harti Brandt wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just tried to upgrade one of my systems from a static root from july to
> an actual dynamic root. The installworld went fine 'til the place where
> /bin/test is installed. At that point the installation stopped with "ELF
> interpreter /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 not found". And really /libexec is not
> populated yet. May it be, that the makefile uses one of the newly
> installed tools during install? For example 'ln' to make the link test ->
> [?
> 
> Also, wouldn't it be helpful to populate /rescue before /bin? Just in
> the case something goes wrong between installing been and rescue for the
> first time?

A dynamic root is still a little bit of a no seatbelt kind of activity.
We should probably bring back the ${OBJDIR}/bin/sh test and if we fail,
install /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 then reattempt the ${OBJDIR}/bin/sh test
and continue on with life.

-gordon