Karanbir Singh wrote:

junk@realtechtalk.com wrote:

I promise not to top post anymore :)

Excellent!

Do you know why the problem I'm describing could be happening?

its all assumption at this stage since you've not really said what breaks or how it does not work

All other packages I have are i386.
I've taken the binary from bash i386 and I did ldd
I copied all relevant files to the livecd but it only works on i686.

What do you really mean by 'it only works with i686' - which part of the livecd is failing ? how did you create this livecd ? what kernel and glibc / init process are you using etc ?

- KB

Hi KB

What I've done is taken a generic 2.6.18.3 Kernel and compiled with i386 support.
All I have on the livecd now since I started from scratch is a copy of the dev entries in centos.

All the disc does is run init and load bash. The init itself is a bash script which just tells /bin/bash to execute
I have all the .so files as mentioned in my previous e-mails copied to the relevant places.

When I run the disc on any i686 machine it works but if I take it to an i586 it halts after the kernel loads.
There is no error message, I can type things but bash never actually executed (remember this disc works fine and loads bash like it should on an i686 machine).

I am using Centos 4.4 Server CD, it comes standard with an i686 glibc installed but I downloaded glibc.i386 2.3.4-2.25
and run "rpm -Uvh glibc-rpm.name --force" to install it over top of glibc.i686

I hope that explains it. The bottom line is the disc works on any i686 machine but not an i386.
I almost wonder if somehow some of the i386 glibc .so's are not i386 as it claims?

Thanks again!