Re: upgrade from static to dynamic root

From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 15:54:21 +0300
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 03:31:55PM -0700, Gordon Tetlow wrote:
> 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.
> 
I've been able to reproduce this, and have just committed a fix for this
into Makefile.inc1.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov		Sysadmin and DBA,
ru_at_sunbay.com		Sunbay Software Ltd,
ru_at_FreeBSD.org		FreeBSD committer

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