Why I am getting "chroot: failed to run command '/bin/sh': Too many levels of symbolic links" errors when trying to chroot in rescue mode ?

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Issue

  • Why I am getting "chroot: failed to run command '/bin/sh': Too many levels of symbolic links" errors when trying to chroot in rescue mode ?
bash-4.1# chroot /mnt/sysimage/
chroot: failed to run command '/bin/sh': Too many levels of symbolic links

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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