Re: [DNG] booting old system on a different partition

2016-05-09 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Peter Olson" > 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

Re: [DNG] booting old system on a different partition

2016-05-09 Thread Simon Hobson
Peter Olson wrote: > 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

Re: [DNG] booting old system on a different partition

2016-05-08 Thread Boruch Baum
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

Re: [DNG] booting old system on a different partition

2016-05-08 Thread Boruch Baum
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

[DNG] booting old system on a different partition

2016-05-08 Thread Peter Olson
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