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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • I hear ya there, but…

    I be getting really confused when one config boots from /dev/sda, but when I have my backup drive attached (not the boot device), it boots from /dev/sdb

    Hell I dunno, I probably confused the hell out of my laptop plus myself with my cutout mod reconfiguration, but it’s happy to boot from almost anything now.

    Almost…

    Hey, at least I know how to restore to my previous state from backup via dd 👍



  • My 128GB is meant as an integrated NVME drive.

    Meant to be. I literally cut a service panel hole under the laptop to remove or reinstall it whenever I feel like, or maybe eventually upgrade it.

    I’ve been booting off of other devices, like my 8GB USB flash, 100GB USB HDD, and even Live Boot USB DVD drive. It’s actually been very convenient, as I can boot off of whatever the hell I want from USB.

    My backup is on a 4TB, so really no worries to me, I can more or less freely experiment around with whatever OS I want, and if it doesn’t work right, I can just dd my backup over whatever again, and it just works.

    But why doesn’t the dd 100GB>128GB work as I’d expect?

    Obviously that’s not the exact dd command I used, for privacy reasons.

    🤷



  • The goal was to migrate the 100GB to the 128GB, hopefully expand it, and format the 100GB for future temporary/experimental use.

    I never planned on having both drives actively running at the same time, so I don’t think there should have been any UUID issues, nor did I run across any errors suggesting such an issue.

    But even without expanding the partition, the dd command should have 1:1 copied the 100GB, with space to spare, and be bootable, right? Or so I thought…

    I had no problem dd restoring the original 128GB contents though, so at least I didn’t bork everything. Also the 100GB external USB is still fine. 👍

    🤷


  • You sound like you know some things that perhaps I don’t know.

    Slightly different question…

    I have a 128GB SSD with Linux Mint MATE 20.3, and I did a full and successful dd backup to my 4TB backup drive.

    I have a 100GB external USB hard drive as a test medium for Mint MATE 22.1. I am happy with my test setup, and tried to dd that over to the 128GB SSD. But it wouldn’t boot.

    I restored the original 128GB SSD image and all is good right now, but why the hell didn’t the 100GB>128GB even boot?

    Edit: Secure Boot has been disabled all along, screw that headache.