It took about three hours t copy /home from my old computer to the new one, and then a couple hours fixing boot problems. The old computer had / and /home defined in fstab by LABEL=Boot and LABEL=Home, plus several external drives. I anticipated this would be a problem, so I used a Knoppix USB stick to # the external drives, and changed 'Boot' to 'Root,' because that is the label that I used on the new partition. But it still wouldn't boot. It took a while to figure out that it wasn't finding /home and /, but when I eventually realized what was happening I changed them to /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2, but still no joy. Then I tried /dev/nvme1 and /dev/nvme2, and when they also failed I was ready to tear my hair out. Finally I used UUIDs, and then I heaved a sigh of relief when the familiar Xubuntu login screen appeared. And here I am, typing my first e-mail on this shiny new Thinkpad.
Side note: In the process I discovered that Ctrl-Alt-t does not open a terminal window in Knoppix. There are still some things to fix - font sizes are first on my list. The old monitor was 1920x1080 and the new one is 3840x2160 UHD. I was amazed that Xubuntu finally delivered the right resolution - there were quite a few error messages about NVIDIA, due probably to different drivers. In the process I used a live Grub Boot Repair ISO, and I'm happy to say that my 'Error: No symbol table' messages are gone. Many, many thanks to all who helped with moving my Xubuntu 18.04 to the new computer! _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
