Re: migrating drives on UEFI systems

2020-06-22 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/21/20 10:42 PM, Tim via users wrote: Hi, On the old BIOS systems, if I wanted to swap hard drives on a system (e.g. move over to a bigger one), I could clone it off-line, then swap over, and it'd just work. Should I expect a UEFI system to do it that simply? Yes, it should be even easier

Re: migrating drives on UEFI systems

2020-06-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/21/20 10:42 PM, Tim via users wrote: On the old BIOS systems, if I wanted to swap hard drives on a system (e.g. move over to a bigger one), I could clone it off-line, then swap over, and it'd just work. Should I expect a UEFI system to do it that simply? In theory, yes.  At least I think

Re: migrating drives on UEFI systems

2020-06-22 Thread Qiyu Yan
Tim via users 于2020年6月22日周一 下午9:14写道: > > Tim: > >> I tried this last night, and it didn't want to boot. I cloned it > >> using > > Qiyu Yan: > > How it didn't want to boot, did you enter the GRUB or just stuck in > > UEFI or something else? I'd guess you stuck at UEFI stage and can't > > enter

Re: migrating drives on UEFI systems

2020-06-22 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> I tried this last night, and it didn't want to boot. I cloned it >> using Qiyu Yan: > How it didn't want to boot, did you enter the GRUB or just stuck in > UEFI or something else? I'd guess you stuck at UEFI stage and can't > enter GRUB. UEFI gave me its error message about not being a

Re: migrating drives on UEFI systems

2020-06-22 Thread Qiyu Yan
Tim via users 于2020年6月22日周一 下午1:44写道: > > Hi, > > On the old BIOS systems, if I wanted to swap hard drives on a system > (e.g. move over to a bigger one), I could clone it off-line, then swap > over, and it'd just work. > > Should I expect a UEFI system to do it that simply? > > And do secure boot

Re: migrating drives on UEFI systems

2020-06-22 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2020-06-22 at 10:28 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Surely if you're moving to a larger disk, you don't want 'dd', which > will just clone the exact same partition table and sizes? I was doing a quick and dirty attempt to get a system running. If it worked, I would have grown the part

Re: migrating drives on UEFI systems

2020-06-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2020-06-22 at 15:12 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > Hi, > > On the old BIOS systems, if I wanted to swap hard drives on a system > (e.g. move over to a bigger one), I could clone it off-line, then swap > over, and it'd just work. > > Should I expect a UEFI system to do it that simply? > >

migrating drives on UEFI systems

2020-06-21 Thread Tim via users
Hi, On the old BIOS systems, if I wanted to swap hard drives on a system (e.g. move over to a bigger one), I could clone it off-line, then swap over, and it'd just work. Should I expect a UEFI system to do it that simply? And do secure boot options throw any spanners in the works, too? I tried