unable to boot system! Why?

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.  No, base-files is a package.  Try downloading the base system and
untaring it into an empty directory.  I'm not sure if base-files is all
that's included in the base system tar ball.  If the-files package is
all that's in a base system tar ball, you can try installing it with

dpkg -i base-files*.deb

This command assumes you are in the same directory as the base-files
package.


          Kenny
	  

n Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 12:15:50PM +0000, igueths at attbi.com wrote:
> 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!
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