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[Ian Scott <mriscott AT yahoo.co.uk>]

>    In my uneducated rush to fix it, I have now lost a lot of the
> other libraries, and now it stops halfway through bootup to the message
> that libX.something not found or doesn't exist. 
> 
>    Is there a way to recover all the work that has gone into this
> particular installation, or am I really looking at a reformat and start
> from scratch ?
> 


Have you still got a BL ramdisk?

If not, download a new one!

Boot to that, then mount your broken partition.

mount /dev/hdax /mnt

(The exact value for hdax is the partition you installed BL to)

Then look in /mnt.  You may be able to find the problem - if it's missing a
library, perhaps you can copy it from the ramdisk version??

If nothing else, you can copy any data, downloads, etc you want onto another
partition before you give up.

Ian