Re: Help: disk swap
On Wed Jul 27 10:30:05 2022 tony <lists@vanderhoff.org> wrote:
> 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 settings are a bit out of date.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.
You might not be able to. I once had a power supply fail
in such a way as to destroy the motherboard and the two
hard drives in the machine. I lost about 180GB of stuff,
only some of which I was able to replace. My backups are
_much_ better now.
Let's hope you're luckier than that.
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