Mandrake 7.1 beta: does not boot

Mandrake 7.1 beta: does not boot

Post by Vinod Ammathi Sures » Mon, 17 Jul 2000 04:00:00



I just installed the beta version of Mandrake 7.1 on a PWS500au. The
installation completed successfully, but I can't boot from the
hard drive. The boot process stops with

Quote:> bash: error in loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.4.1: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory

        I reinstalled the system and checked that the library was
installed in /usr/lib.The boot still stops with the same message. Any
suggestions? Thanks,

- Vinod.

 
 
 

Mandrake 7.1 beta: does not boot

Post by Vinod Ammathi Sures » Mon, 17 Jul 2000 04:00:00



> I just installed the beta version of Mandrake 7.1 on a PWS500au. The
> installation completed successfully, but I can't boot from the
> hard drive. The boot process stops with

> > bash: error in loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.4.1: cannot open
> > shared object file: No such file or directory

>    I reinstalled the system and checked that the library was
> installed in /usr/lib.The boot still stops with the same message. Any
> suggestions? Thanks,

> - Vinod.

Found the solution in this post:
http://x65.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=638364400&CONTEXT=963769011.11196826...

I have / and /usr on different partitions and libreadline.so.4.1 was
needed beore /usr was mounted. I just started the installation again and
copied the files from /usr/lib to /lib from the console. Turns out you
need to copy libreadline.so.4.1 and libhistory.so.4.1 into /lib: the
installer forgets to do this.

- Vinod.

 
 
 

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