Alan E. Davis schrieb:
> thank you.  And your comment was duly noted about trying random things.
> 
> When I boot the system, the following message follows (after one other
> line) after INIT: version 2.86 booting
> 
> /sbin/rc: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5:
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.

Use a live-linux from usb-stick or CD, mount your root, chroot into it
and give revdep-rebuild a try. That should help.

Greetings

Sebastian