On 2020-08-30 02:44, Rick Thomas wrote:
OK, I've got a Debian computer where the system disk is showing signs of
flakiness. I want to replace it with a new disk and retire the old one.
I would get an SSD of the same or larger size and use dd(1) to copy the
raw blocks of the old drive to the
The easiest method might be to boot from installation media, run the
"rescue" install, chroot to the disk you want to use, then run update-grub
from there
All the very best, as ever,
Andy C.
On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 2:44 PM David wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Aug 2020 at 20:03, Rick Thomas wrote:
>
> >
On Sun, 30 Aug 2020 at 20:03, Rick Thomas wrote:
> So what am I missing? How do I tell grub on the new disk to use the root
> partition and volume-group on the new disk?
Hi, I have written this message from memory
without testing any of the commands, and
I don't actually use any of these
On Sun, 30 Aug 2020 02:44:02 -0700
"Rick Thomas" wrote:
> OK, I've got a Debian computer where the system disk is showing signs
> of flakiness. I want to replace it with a new disk and retire the
> old one.
>
> Before I do it for real, I'm doing a dry-run on a vmware virtual
> machine. I
OK, I've got a Debian computer where the system disk is showing signs of
flakiness. I want to replace it with a new disk and retire the old one.
Before I do it for real, I'm doing a dry-run on a vmware virtual machine. I
don't *think* the fact that it's virtual should affect my results. But
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