How to fix: glibc installed over libc6 broke system

[John Foster <jfoster@augustmail.com>]

I did a real dumb thing without thinking. I grabbed a .rpm of glibc 
2.3.9 from SuSE, converted it to a .deb with alien and installed it. Of 
course I forgot that libc6 is the debian way of handeling this 
dependency (see locales; unstable) Yeah it was VERY late.
Any way it broke the entire system. i tried to reboot got a kernel panic 
no init sequence. I also tried to chroot to the files system from 
another stable system disk in the same box. No go. ANT tips or ideas are 
aooreciated.
Thanks
John