unable to boot system! Why?

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.  Not sure what caused your problem, but I'm almost certain that when
you copied the potato boot disk's /lib to /target/lib you made things
worse.
The libraries on the install disk are stripped down versions.  The files
you see in /lib after an install were unpacked from the base system.
Also, the files in /lib have likely been updated since you first
installed the system.  If you've dist-upgraded to Woody since the
install most of /lib was replaced with newer versions.

The way to run the lilo on your installed system if you have booted from
a rescue disk is to chroot into /target first.  That way, the system
should use the corect lilo and shared libs.  Since you have already done
the cp command, it might be to late.

If I'm wrong then hopefully someone will corect me.
          Kenny
	  
On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 08:32:17PM -0700, Igor Gueths wrote:
> Hi Greg. Well, I can access all the data on the drive just fine. However, I
> can't boot from the hard disk. Lilo just does what I described earlier in
> the previous post. I also can't do anything to the already installed lilo
> from the rescue floppies, because I get that error while loading shared
> libraries. I do not have another Linux box to aid in this restoration
> process. And restoring the libs from the rescue disk to the target /lib
> didn't do anything. The files got coppied, but I got the same error. Does
> loading shared libraries. ./Lilo: Symbol __cxa_atexit, version glibc_1.2.3,
> not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference. I tried copying the
> /lib directory from the rescue flopppy (root floppy) to /target/lib, and no
> effect. I still got the same error. And this box still will not reboot. And
> I do not want to install my entire system over again. Is there any way I can
> restore Lilo/all the libs without having to re-install everything? Has
> anyone encountered this error before and if so how did you fix it? Thanks!
>