Re: Help: disk swap

[gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>]

On 7/27/22 08:02, tony wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I turned on my main home server after a few weeks absence,  and got
> smoke from its power supply. Fortunately, I have a backup system, which
> does work; both are running Debian 10, so I swapped use to that machine.
> and am able to work with that, but some of the files and settings are a
> bit out of date.
>
> I decided to move the disk from the broken machine to the backup, but on
> booting I'm dropped into a grub screen saying disk id <blablabla> not
> found. Not entirely surprising perhaps.
>
> So, how do I get it to recognize, and boot from the old disK.
>
> Cheers, Tony
>
> .
name the disk partition, and use that "name" in the /etc/fstab to mount it.
You may have to rerun grub install too.

Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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