On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 05:55:46PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I m copying my entire Devuan system to new partitions on the same computer. > but I can't get the copy system to boot. > > I plan to upgrade the copy to ascii, keeping the old system in dual-boot > scenario just in case I'm not expecting problems, but I've had them on > Debian upgrades years ago, and they sometimes arise from causes that have > nothing to do with the quality of the old and new systems. > > The messge I get is: > > vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-686-pae not found > you need to load the kernel first > > But vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-686-pae *is* the kernel. I don't know how to load the > ernel before it can find the kernel.
I've solved the problem. I've been embarrassingly stupid. I used the exact, correct UUID, checked hex digit by hex digit multiple times, of the *wrong partition*. Of course it didn't find the kernel. There was no kernel on the wrong partition. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
