On Saturday 28 October 2017 17:08:45 David Christensen wrote: > 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
That optiplex is too old to have ever heard of UEFI, with suitable thanks to $DIETY. Which (clonezilla) may fix what I think is the last problem. I have it booting now, but my gui login to TDE says my passwd is not good. But goto the login's menu and select a console login, and there it works. Since this gui is TDE, I've asked Slavek what might be wrong & how to fix it. TDE has its own tdepasswd, but needs a working gui to run, so I'm screwed either way. So, I'll saddle up and go get my missus a paper so she can have her daily crossword fix, and see what Slavek or Timothy has to say. Thanks. 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>
