diff --git a/package/target-finish/1st-stage/1st-stage.conf b/package/target-finish/1st-stage/1st-stage.conf
index 4e1373b9c..4c38d7bd9 100644
--- a/package/target-finish/1st-stage/1st-stage.conf
+++ b/package/target-finish/1st-stage/1st-stage.conf
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ kernel="$( grep "[ =]$ROCKCFG_PKG_LINUX_DEFAULT " $base/config/$config/packages
 
 echo "Creating initrd data:"
 rm -rf ${targetdir}
-mkdir -p ${targetdir}/{dev,proc,sys,tmp,scsi,net,bin,sbin,etc,lib}
+mkdir -p ${targetdir}/{dev,proc,sys,tmp,scsi,net,bin,sbin,etc,$multilib}
 cd ${targetdir}
 
 # this copies a set of programs and the necessary libraries into a
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ echo "/dev/root		/	auto	defaults	0 0" > etc/fstab
 
 # supress udev uig/gid warnings
 cp -vp ${rootdir}/etc/{passwd,group} etc/
-cp -vp ${rootdir}/lib/libnss_files.so.* lib/
+cp -vp ${rootdir}/$multilib/libnss_files.so.* $multilib/
 
 echo "Creating some device nodes"
 mknod dev/ram0		b 1 0
@@ -67,7 +67,9 @@ mknod dev/console	c 5 1
 # cp ${base}/build/${ROCKCFG_ID}/isomd5sum/checkisomd5 bin/
 # rm -rf ${base}/build/${ROCKCFG_ID}/compile_isomd5sum.sh ${base}/build/${ROCKCFG_ID}/isomd5sum
 
-libdirs="${rootdir}/lib `sed -e"s,^\(.*\),${rootdir}\1," ${rootdir}/etc/ld.so.conf | tr '\n' ' '`"
+libdirs="${rootdir}/$multilib ${rootdir}/usr/$multilib \
+	`sed -r -e'/^[ 	]*(#|$)/ d' -e"s,^(.*),${rootdir}\1," -e"s,/lib(/|$),/$multilib\1,p" \
+		${rootdir}/etc/ld.so.conf | uniq | tr '\n' ' '`"
 
 needed_libs() {
 	local x="${1}" library
@@ -170,12 +172,6 @@ for x in lib/modules/*/kernel/drivers/{scsi,net}; do
 	[ -d $x ] && ln -s ${x#lib/modules/} lib/modules/
 done
 
-if [ -e ${rootdir}/lib64 ] ; then
-	# mixed 32/64-bit libraries are not supported
-	echo "Creating /lib64 -> /lib symlink ... "
-	ln -s lib $targetdir/lib64
-fi
-
 echo "Copying required libraries ... "
 while [ -n "${libs}" ] ; do
 	oldlibs=${libs}