On Sun, May 11, 2014, at 01:39 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 7:29 PM, Itay <deb...@itayf.fastmail.fm> wrote:
[snip] > > Indeed I had grub2 installed. > > Given that I repopulated the new disk manually, by a series of rsync > > commands, I suspect that I failed copying some of the critical boot > > data. But how to identify that? > > This seems like a kind of obvious question, but can you still mount > the old drive to run recursive diffs? start with /boot and /etc, for > instance. > Hi, It's a small form factor computer so I can install only one hard drive at a time. The diff would have to be done in two steps: old vs. backup, and then backup vs. new hdd. So it will take time until I have results. > Another thing you need to check is whether rsync successfully > replicated the metadata appropriately. Some essential servers will > refuse to run if the permissions are too loose or the owner:group is > incorrect. IIRC diff should be able to report on differences in file meta data. Please note that it's a home desktop: no special services are running; I did not impose (knowingly) any security steps beyond the defaults provided during installation. (Unfortunately I am far from being experienced system-administrator -- I am merely a user who likes using debian at home...) Many thanks, Itay > -- > Joel Rees > > Be careful where you see conspiracy. > Look first in your own heart. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > https://lists.debian.org/CAAr43iM8ReiOgVidwmHGyW4+WXV=vgd2hl+b3u1nhxgkvo_...@mail.gmail.com > -- Itay Furman it...@fastmail.fm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1399806531.22827.116034109.4379b...@webmail.messagingengine.com
