On 1 Sep 2025 at 22:36, Samuel Sieb wrote: Date sent: Mon, 1 Sep 2025 22:36:13 -0700 Subject: Re: Failure in switching Disk that I don't understand. To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org From: Samuel Sieb <sam...@sieb.net> Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>
> On 2025-09-01 22:32, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: > > Have a dell lattitude 5580. > > It originally had a 500M nvme card that was showing as SDA > > Installed a 1TB SSD drive and imaged the 500M to 1TB and it > > showd up as SDB. Booted fine after swapping out nvme since they > > had same UUID for partitions. > > > > Went to upgrade the SDB 1TB to nvme 2TB. But ended up with a > > non-bootable system. > > Did image, and removed the SSD SDB drive from computer, but > > booting fails with message it can't find partitions with UUID? > > logging in with debug root password, and chec, the UUIDs, and > > they match exactly for all partitions. Difference is that partitions > > are not showing as /dev/sd? setting but as /dev/nvme.... > > > > fstab has > > UUID=de10a0a9-fd86-4625-a768-67477a8a802d / > > ext4 defaults 1 1 > > UUID=01d61794-271a-4d17-a901-47afee995382 /boot > > ext4 defaults 1 2 > > UUID=B5B5-43CF /boot/efi vfat > > umask=0077,shortname=winnt 0 2 > > UUID=a041e51f-4fcb-48c3-b249-c39c1af03b5e /home > > ext4 defaults 1 2 > > UUID=892e9432-1c99-4357-8213-6683c0692b55 /data > > ext4 defaults 1 2 > > UUID=375c1b5d-f295-4319-8014-cb800bb6a938 /data2 > > ext4 defaults 1 2 > > > > And the uuids are same on the /dev/sdb and /dev/nvme.... > > Machine boots fine with only /dev/sdb installed, but if only the nvme > > drive it after a long time comes up with a failed boot and drops to > > the root debug login. > > > > So have no clue why it isn't working when the UUIDs are exactly > > the same. Image is a straight dd image. > > > > At moment, I'm doing a clean install of Fedora 42 to the 2TB nvme > > on another Dell 5580 and it it also, showing nvme?? > > > > Will have to do a lot of manual work to setup it up to have the setup > > I need rather than just image? > > > > Any ideals on what might have caused the fail, or ways to fix it. > > Tried using recovery kernel option, but does same thing. > > The nvme driver might not be in the initramfs. Try booting the rescue > option which includes all the drivers. I had tried booting with the rescue kernel, and it gives same error. After logining in for the root password, it puts me in the /root directory, and shows the files that are in that directory. That is same with regular and with rescue kernel. > > -- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:mi...@guam.net mailto:msetze...@gmail.com mailto:msetze...@gmx.com Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
