4.3. After the kernel is booted...
...You will find yourself in an absolute minimal bash-environment.
You will not even be asked to enter your username or password!
At this time you are the ultimate super-user; no-one can get
around you because the system is in single-user mode, so be
careful what you are doing. There are no file-rights set or anything else!
Your prompt will probably look like this:
At this moment your root (/) has been mounted as read-only, thus
you will not be able to write the new library to your hard drive.
To make it
r/w, enter the command:
If your source is located on another partition you must also
mount it, as it is not done for you (for me this means mounting my
raid system):
mount -t reiserfs /dev/md0 /usr/src |
As you
see, I defined the file system type, which is needed because
mount does not look anything up in
/etc/fstab.
Now you can go to the directory containing the source and type
in:
If you like, now might be a good time to pray that everything works out fine... ;-)
If everything went through properly, you will return to your prompt
after the installation without any error message. In all other
cases, please see Chapter 5.
If everything goes fine, run:
to update your
library cache.
Congratulations! The library is successfully installed. Now type
in: mount -o remount,ro / to ensure that all the data is
written to the hard drive.
Now start the reboot:
This will cause an error message saying that you have caused a
kernel-panic. If possible, restart the computer by using
CTRL-
ALT-
DEL, otherwise use your hardware's reset switch.
Try booting your normal kernel. If everything turns out fine, you
are ready to use the new library.
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