On 10/28/17 11:31, 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?
For system drives, I use dd to copy raw drive contents from one device
to an image file, from one device to another device, and from an image
file to a device:
partition table/ boot loader
boot partition
encrypted swap partition
encrypted boot partition
For this to work:
1. I use BIOS firmware and MS-DOS partition tables.
2. The destination device needs to have at least as many blocks
available as were used by the source device. I have several 16 GB SSD's
and 16 GB USB 3.0 flash drives for this purpose. As different "16 GB"
devices can have a similar, but unequal, number of blocks, I typically
use no more than 90% of the available space when I install.
Given your significant size mismatch (2 TB -> 64 GB), and possible UEFI
and/or GPT, you might want to use a more sophisticated tool. Clonezilla
comes to mind.
David
