On Saturday 28 October 2017 14:42:08 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 02:31:36PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I've partitioned and formatted this 64GB SSD, copied everything from > > both working partitions of a 2TB drive to it, filling it up to a > > whopping 18%, edited the SSD's version of /etc/fstab to use the > > proper blkid's to mount it including swap, and edited > > /boot/grub/device.map to point at the /dev/disk/by-id > > description/identifier of the drive. And set the first partitions > > boot flag. > > > > But pull the 2TB, and plug its cables into the SSD, and grub is not > > loading. > > > > What did I miss? > > When swapping boot devices, after I have done transferring the data > and while it is still plugged in as a secondary device, I do the > following: > > - Mount the new device somewhere (like /mnt) > - Mount the proc, devpts, and sysfs into /mnt > - Chroot into /mnt > - Run update-grub > > After that, I shut everything down, remove the original drive, put the > replacement in as primary and everything works. > > I just went through this a couple of months ago to replace a failing > drive in my laptop. > > Regards, > > -Roberto
Thank you Roberto, I'll do that yet today. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
