From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Fedora/1.0.4-1.3.1 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: I booted the FC4 rescue CD on a RH EL WS 3.0 system with the hopes of fixing a corrupted boot loader. The rescue disc boots fine, but when I tried to chroot /mnt/sysimage it segfaulted. I also tried chroot /mnt/sysimage /bin/ls and that segfaulted as well. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot the rescue cd 2. chroot /mnt/sysimage 3. Actual Results: segfault and no chroot Expected Results: New shell chroot'ed Additional info:
I suspect the issue is mixing the two OS versions. Did you test the mismatched versions? The reason I think that might be the problem, is that I just updated my FC3 system to the packages in updates-testing and now if I attempt to boot any of my old kernels (2.6.11-1.27 for example) it reports a core dump very early in the init process. If I boot the kernel 2.6.11-1.35 (which is also in updates testing) then everything works fine. We needed a rescue disc from FC4 because it had SATA drivers that aren't in EL3. Maybe this isn't supposed to work?
I test fc4 rescue CD on a RHEL3 system and it works fine. Probably there is some mistake on the system you want to chroot which causes this error.