Re: System Cloning [SOLVED]

2020-03-23 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/20/20 11:23 AM, Robert McBroom via users wrote: The problems was selinux.  Used the chroot process to edit /etc/selinus/config and disable selinux. Cloning is successful. Recap Knoppix DVD used to copy working Fedora 31 /boot and / to a usbdisk with rsync. If separate, /home and /var

Re: System Cloning

2020-03-23 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/18/20 9:45 PM, sixpack13 wrote: On 19.03.20 03:58, Robert McBroom via users wrote: On 3/18/20 12:04 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: ... The kernels from a cloned system are  far different from what is executing by doing a chroot from a live system, so `uname -r` is not useful. that

Re: System Cloning [SOLVED]

2020-03-20 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 3/18/20 11:50 PM, Robert McBroom via users wrote: On 3/18/20 1:00 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 11:09:23 -0400 Robert McBroom via users wrote: /etc/grub2.cfg That's usually a link to the "real" file, and some editors don't do well with links. Might want to check the actual

Re: System Cloning

2020-03-19 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 20 Mar 2020 04:43:56 +1030 Tim via users wrote: > a. Do not install a bootloader, let me use something else (something > you've already got, that you're prepared to configure, yourself). It may allow me to not install grub at all (I forget), but then I have no way to boot that partition

Re: System Cloning

2020-03-19 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2020-03-19 at 13:36 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > Try installing on a one disk system in a new partition > without it destroying the existing grub and replacing it > with one that boots the new partition instead of the old one. > It will no longer allow you to install grub on a partition, >

Re: System Cloning

2020-03-19 Thread sixpack13
On 19.03.20 18:36, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 15:06:52 +0100 sixpack13 wrote: 2 days ago I installed F32 on an two disk system keeping my /home and the second disk. Reformating the rest. Try installing on a one disk system in a new partition without it destroying the existing

Re: System Cloning

2020-03-19 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 15:06:52 +0100 sixpack13 wrote: > 2 days ago I installed F32 on an two disk system keeping my /home and > the second disk. Reformating the rest. Try installing on a one disk system in a new partition without it destroying the existing grub and replacing it with one that

Re: System Cloning

2020-03-19 Thread sixpack13
On 19.03.20 11:42, Tim via users wrote: On Wed, 2020-03-18 at 23:50 -0400, Robert McBroom via users wrote: Fixing the *.conf entries in /boot/loader/entries gets the UUID problem solved and I get to the login screen but my logins are not accepted. Copied the original to usb disk from the source

Re: System Cloning

2020-03-19 Thread sixpack13
On 19.03.20 14:22, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 21:12:51 +1030 Tim via users wrote: ... Because these days anaconda is adamantly opposed to let you install where you want to install without wiping out stuff you didn't want wiped out. Installing a virtual machine then copying it

Re: System Cloning

2020-03-19 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 21:12:51 +1030 Tim via users wrote: > I want to ask the obvious question: Why is perserving with this > pallaver better than simply doing a fresh install on the other > computer? Because these days anaconda is adamantly opposed to let you install where you want to install

Re: System Cloning

2020-03-19 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 3/19/20 6:42 AM, Tim via users wrote: On Wed, 2020-03-18 at 23:50 -0400, Robert McBroom via users wrote: Fixing the *.conf entries in /boot/loader/entries gets the UUID problem solved and I get to the login screen but my logins are not accepted. Copied the original to usb disk from the

Re: System Cloning

2020-03-19 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2020-03-18 at 23:50 -0400, Robert McBroom via users wrote: > Fixing the *.conf entries in /boot/loader/entries gets the UUID > problem solved and I get to the login screen but my logins are not > accepted. Copied the original to usb disk from the source with a > Knoppix live disk so there

Re: System Cloning

2020-03-18 Thread sixpack13
On 19.03.20 03:55, Robert McBroom via users wrote: On 3/18/20 12:14 PM, sixpack13 wrote: On 18.03.20 16:09, Robert McBroom via users wrote: ... Editing the grub menu gets to a boot screen but entering an id and you mean *login* screen ? password lists a few entries to fast to read and

Re: System Cloning

2020-03-18 Thread sixpack13
On 19.03.20 03:58, Robert McBroom via users wrote: On 3/18/20 12:04 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: ... The kernels from a cloned system are  far different from what is executing by doing a chroot from a live system, so `uname -r` is not useful. that could be, but AFAIK, if I chroot to a

Re: System Cloning

2020-03-18 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 3/18/20 1:00 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 11:09:23 -0400 Robert McBroom via users wrote: /etc/grub2.cfg That's usually a link to the "real" file, and some editors don't do well with links. Might want to check the actual file down under /boot somewhere (location varies for old

Re: System Cloning

2020-03-18 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 3/18/20 12:04 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Wed, 2020-03-18 at 11:09 -0400, Robert McBroom via users wrote: Cloning Fedora 31 on different computer. Fixed the UUID entries in /etc/fstab, /etc/grub2.cfg, /boot/grub2/grubenv, but attempting to start finds an entry for the original / UUID

Re: System Cloning

2020-03-18 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 3/18/20 12:14 PM, sixpack13 wrote: On 18.03.20 16:09, Robert McBroom via users wrote: Cloning Fedora 31 on different computer. Fixed the UUID entries in /etc/fstab, /etc/grub2.cfg, /boot/grub2/grubenv, but attempting to start finds an entry for the original / UUID and drops into dracut.

Re: System Cloning

2020-03-18 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 11:09:23 -0400 Robert McBroom via users wrote: > /etc/grub2.cfg That's usually a link to the "real" file, and some editors don't do well with links. Might want to check the actual file down under /boot somewhere (location varies for old dos versus uefi installs). I'm not

Re: System Cloning

2020-03-18 Thread sixpack13
On 18.03.20 16:09, Robert McBroom via users wrote: Cloning Fedora 31 on different computer.  Fixed the UUID entries in /etc/fstab, /etc/grub2.cfg, /boot/grub2/grubenv, but attempting to start finds an entry for the original / UUID and drops into dracut. dracut I guess you need to edit

Re: System Cloning

2020-03-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2020-03-18 at 11:09 -0400, Robert McBroom via users wrote: > Cloning Fedora 31 on different computer. Fixed the UUID entries in > /etc/fstab, /etc/grub2.cfg, /boot/grub2/grubenv, but attempting to start > finds an entry for the original / UUID and drops into dracut. dracut > seems to