On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 10:17:34AM -0500, William Park via talk wrote: > For /, /home, ... it's simple copy. Since you're using external USB, don't > use "dd". "cp -a" should be good enough. Or, "tar -cf -". > Never used "cpio". > > For /boot, it's different can of worm. You can copy over the content, but > you have to update /boot/efi/EFI/DistroX/, so that your motherboard "BIOS" > knows about it. I'd recommend, install your distro on the new SSD using > UEFI. Then, update files for your old kernel. That way, the structure is > created for you. > > Personally, I don't like UEFI. If you change motherboard, you can't boot. > Personal experience!
You can if you have a bootloader installed at the default path. That's why UEFI bootable USB keys work fine. So if your disk has /efi/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI then it should auto boot on any UEFI motherboard. /efi being the ESP boot partition. Booting something else requires an entry in the UEFI NVRAM. -- Len Sorensen --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
