> -----Original Message----- > From: Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> > Sent: Monday, June 8, 2020 18:07 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] clone root from HDD to SSD causes no video with > NVIDIA driver > > You're missing device nodes in /dev that are needed before udev populates > it. Simply excluding the virtual filesystems as you have results in these > files > not being copied as they are hidden behind the virtual /dev/ mounted from > used. The way I clone a root device is > > mkdir -p /mnt/root > mount --bind / /mnt/root > rsync -a /mnt/root/ /mnt/new/device/ > > That preserves files that are otherwise hidden by mounted filesystems. > I tried this: # mkdir -p /mnt/root # mount --bind / /mnt/root
The bind-mounted dev/ does not contain all devices, in particular the nvidia ones are missing. BTW, I thought these were created dynamically during the module load. Then, for a quick test: # rsync -a /mnt/root/dev/* /mnt/new/device/dev But it did not fix the issue. raffaele
