Re: Help: disk swap
Thanks for your help. Sadly, I'm not getting very far with this. I guess
I'm not understanding your instructions too well:
On 27/07/2022 16:07, Jude DaShiell wrote:
Have the running linux system on the machine. Run lsblk to locate the
name of the boot partition.
I'll call the disk from the backup machine "B", and the disk I want to
use "A".
OK, on disk B: lsblk sda9 /boot
Once you have the name run blkid and copy the
sudo blkid
/dev/sda9: LABEL="boot" UUID="3fe30767-f7d7-4e6d-b48e-f80eef2d4b71"
Now I'm lost.
Remove disk B, install disk A
Boots into grub rescue.
uuid for use in the end of /etc/fstab and put in the path to the boot
device, the disk format ext4, defaults,nofail 1 2 on an fstab entry.
Next, run update-grub and you should get a new boot entry in grub. If you
boot the machine on the boot screen hit down-arrow followed by enter and
your other disk should boot up.
I got a new computer with no sata tray in it and have a sata caddy and
some older sata disks and that's how I got those to boot. hth.
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