Ah, a familiar story. So much for rescue by the rescue disk. Dig the shared
lib(s)
you're missing and copy them into /lib/ after you boot the rescue disk, then run
restore. My bo machine shows:
chilin$ ldd /sbin/restore
libext2fs.so.2 => /lib/libext2fs.so.2
libcom_err.so.2 => /lib/libcom_err.so.2
libe2p.so.2 => /lib/libe2p.so.2
libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5
Jeff Schreiber wrote:
> Ok... using my vast intellegence, or lack thereof, I set out to
> repartition
> my disk to remove the two [usr & var] partitions that I moved over to
> another disk, and resize my swap from 64 to 128, and resize my root to be
> the remainder of the disk.
>
> So I dumped the root partition to a dump file on my other disk [which is
> most likely going to end up being my saviour]. I repartitioned the disk,
> but it didn't seem to take.
>
> So I booted off the rescue floppy and set up the swap partition again.
> Which seemed to work, but the resized root partition didn't take. I then
> [this is where the lack of vast intelligence kicks in] re-initialized my
> root partition, thinking I could restore my root dump onto the new
> partition... at this point I figured there was a better way, but I
> couldn't
> think of it.
>
> So I <alt><F2>'d, mounted my other disks partitions, and set out to
> restore onto /target, Only to find that I didn't have the restore
> command.
>
> So I searched through my backup [I dumped to a dump file, and I dumped
> to stdout also so I had access to those files], found my restore, and
> tried to execute it, only to find that I couldn't [it couldn't find
> something... I assumed it was a function in a shareable that wasn't
> around because of booting off of the rescue].
>
> So I came up with another idea, I would tar and untar the backup version
> of the root filesystem onto the new root in /target. Only tar had a
> similar issue with a function it couldn't find.
>
> Now... is there _any_ way I can solve this without totally reinstalling
> debian on my new root partition, booting up, whiping it out and restoring
> my old partition from the dump file?
>
> -Jeff
>
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