On Friday 05 July 2002 09:30, zentara wrote:
On Thu, 4 Jul 2002 20:06:37 -0400
Mike <kenziem@sympatico.ca> wrote:
at the boot prompt enter: linux init=/bin/sh
I tired that as well
It looks at the hard drive then a few lines after I get
kmod failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c, errno = 8
I've tried stopping the scroll after the hda message to catch the last few lines but haven;t be able to.
I would try going into the init scripts where kmod runs and edit out the line trying to use binfmt. Of course that requires you can boot somehow. You must be able to boot somehow, since it did get installed. Boot from the install disk and cancel the installation, that should give you a prompt. Then mount your / partition and edit .
When I installed I used the boot disk and installed from my network. It doesn't boot from the floppy any more.
Another thing to try is removing binfmt.o from /lib/modules. Rename it to binfmt.o.bak. Maybe it is corrupt.
I cleaned out /lib/modules, that's how I got in this trouble to start with. iirc when I rebuilt the kernel I forgot to add elf or a.out support to the kernel.