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
