[aclug-L] File too short

[bbales <bbales@xxxxxxx>]

I scp'd some files to my wife's machine and one of them was a link to another 
file, which was not on the target machine.  Linux locked up and won't boot.  
I get a kernel panic:  
init: error loading shared libraries:  libc.6.so:   file too short
init: kernel panic:  attempting to kill init

The boot disk I made won't get it going.  

knoppix can't get to it.

Tried to upgrade with same cd (RH7.2) - it did the upgrade in about 10 
minutes, but didn't change anything.  Still kernel panic

Tried rescue mode - chroot sys/image.  Can't remove or ls or do any command - 
always get error loading libraries: libc.6.so: file too short

Found quite a few questions on google with file-too-short, but no appropriate 
answers.

Everything but swap is on one partition and I'd sure like to save her /home 
directory.

Any ideas how to remove the offending piece of a file?
bruce
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