On 12/11/14 15:13, DaZZa wrote: > And it flat out refused to boot. Nada. Get nicked. > > I thought I must have stuffed up the image - but both disks booted the > first device fine. > > After scratching my head for a few hours and trying every BIOS option > I could find, I decided to try a fresh install from the CD onto the > new device - and stuff me if it didn't work. > > Now I'm at the point where one "disk" will boot on one device but not > on the other. > > Has anyone come across this before? Is it something specific to > Ubuntu, or is it the stupid "SecureBoot" crap (which was turned off, > by the way) they put into the BIOS for these things doing *something* > to the "disk" to make the second device not recognise it? > > Not really an issue, because I've fixed them so they both boot now - > but I'm intensely curious as to *why* this happened. > > DaZZa
I have no idea aboot secure boot, it might be the problem, no idea. I have seen a linux appliance that wouldn't work after being dd'd because the mac address changed and the ethernet device became eth1, and the appliance had hard coded eth0 in it. I can't see how that would matter in this scenario, but thought I would mention it. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html