Thanks Steve. I tried dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sde status=progress. It
finished. I used Gparted to expand the 240GB from the original sd to
fill the 1TB ssd it was copied to. I replaced the original ssd with the
1TB ssd, booted and it worked perfectly first time. Thanks. From now
on I'll use dd to backup the ssd this beast boots from.
On 11/12/23 17:59, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Jim via PLUG-discuss said on Sun, 12 Nov 2023 16:52:04 -0700
I have a Dell Optiplex 7010 with 32GB RAM and kubuntu 22.04 installed
on it. I used clonezilla to make a copy of a 240 GB SSD onto a 1TB
SSD. When I tried to boot from the copy, I got to the gui login
screen. I gave it my password and pressed enter. Nothing happened. I
tried ctrl alt f2 to get to the console and was able to log in there.
I went back to the gui, but the screen was black with a mouse pointer
which moved with the mouse. I pressed ctrl alt backspace which took
me back to the login screen. I gave it my password and the gui screen
stopped. Like the first time, the mouse pointer moved as I moved the
mouse. I replaced the new ssd with the old one and everything booted
normally.
Does anyone have any idea what's going on?
I'm skeptical of Clonezilla. I would have used dd, rebooted, and if it
worked, use a rescue CD and enlarge the partition to accommodate the
whole of the SSD.
Unfortunately you're using a Ubuntu derived OS, which makes it like
pulling teeth to boot straight to CLI, and then run startx, which would
be my suggestion for getting more data about the problem. As a matter
of fact, the difficulty of doing this is what made me move from Ubuntu
to Debian. Of course within a few months Debian inserted systemd and I
moved to Void Linux :-)
SteveT
Steve Litt
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