On 2016-05-09 00:18, Peter Olson wrote: > So, I installed the Devuan beta a few days ago and it is great, rather it > almost > mostly works. I probably need an audio driver installed. I want to see what > the old system had installed. > > So I cleared out another partition and moved the backup of my Debian 8.3 onto > it. Ran update-grub, which found the backup in its new location. > > But, when I try to boot it grub is confused and is pinned to the old UUID of > the > root filesystem. (I have already updated /etc/fstab in the restored backup, > but > it is not even getting that far.) It just dumps me into busybox saying it > can't > find the root fs. Gotta love grub, which is useful only when nothing is wrong > :-) > > Any advice about how to proceed? > > Peter Olson
Have you verified that you have a new UUID for that old backed-up partitiion. IIRC, when one backs up a partition using 'dd if=/dev/sd{n}{x}', the old UUID is part of the data backed up. code: ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid If my guess is correct, for a hypothetical partition sdz9, your fix should be something like: code: tune2fs /dev/sdz9 -U $(uuidgen) -- hkp://keys.gnupg.net CA45 09B5 5351 7C11 A9D1 7286 0036 9E45 1595 8BC0 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng