I hope somebody can help,
No sure why but my Fedora Core 4 machine refused to boot properly the other day. It came up with an error message saying that libglib.so (or something similar, I am posting from work due to a non functioning machine at home....)
I have tried to boot from a live CD (Knoppix) but because I have two hard drives set up using LVM it doesn't recognise the drives.
I booted from the FC4 DVD and entered rescue mode and tried to reinstall the glib rpm but that failed as well.
Question is where to from here.
Can I repair the damage from the rescue console ?
If I need to reinstall whats the best way to get my data off which is located on /home and a separate folder /MUSIC ?
Can I just go through the reinstall procedure with the FC4 DVD safe that it won't wipe my /home and /MUSIC folders ?
Should I just bite the bullet and get the FC5 DVD and do an upgrade ?
I have plenty of storage space available on the LAN is needed but would rather not copy 127Gb of data around.
Thanks for any help,
Woppa

If you had the foresight to stick /home in it's own partition, you can do a clean FC4 install and tell anaconda to leave that partition alone. Anaconda's update methods may have improved from FC4...

I take it you successfully booted in rescue mode... how did you try to reinstall the missing library and what was the exact error message?

(For that matter, what was the exact error message when you tried to boot?)