unable to boot system! Why?

[igueths at attbi.com]

Hi Kenny. Assuming the libs won't work even after I chroot, can I just download 
the base system from the latest stable version onto a Cd, and then untar it 
from the chroot shell? As in chroot /target cd tar zxvf basefile.tgz? 
> 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!
> > 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup