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arch_fuz

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Registered: 2015-01-31

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[SOLVED] Booting Image of Laptop Harddisk in different Computer

Hi.
I have an image of my laptop HD, which I put into a Desktop PC. The laptop has an i7 processor, the desktop a different i7. The OS is Arch Linux. My systen (HD) is setup to boot in EFI mode. When I turn on the Desktop (Bios settings are set to UEFI, HD is detected) after a while I find myself in the BIOS screen again. No hint at all, what went wrong.

There is no special Hardware in the Desktop I am using the on board graphics card.

Does anyone have an idea how to deal with that?

Thanks,
-fuz

EDIT: Both, laptop have an i7 processor (different types). Initially I wrote laptop has an i5 processor.

Last edited by arch_fuz (2020-02-02 18:52:05)

xerxes_

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Re: [SOLVED] Booting Image of Laptop Harddisk in different Computer

So, do you have on both computers EFI or in one of them BIOS? Write more about boot partition setup and boot loader used.

Slithery

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Re: [SOLVED] Booting Image of Laptop Harddisk in different Computer

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mi … bootloader

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arch_fuz

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Registered: 2015-01-31

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Re: [SOLVED] Booting Image of Laptop Harddisk in different Computer

Sorry, I am not very familar regarding boot process and driver issues. Please let me know if you need more info/clearification.

I have a /boot/grub/grub.cfg, so I guess my boot loader is grub.
This is an entry of the file, maybe this helps:

load_video
        set gfxpayload=keep
        insmod gzio
        insmod part_gpt
        insmod ext2
        set root='hd0,gpt2'
        if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
          search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-ieee1275='ieee1275//disk@0,gpt2' --hint-bios=hd0,gpt2 --hint-efi=hd0,gpt2 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,gpt2  43fd205b-a298-45e8-a220-3a7
426442ecf
        else
          search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 43fd205b-a298-45e8-a220-3a7426442ecf
        fi
        echo    'Linux linux wird geladen …'
        linux   /vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/mapper/vg0-root rw cryptdevice=/dev/sda3:luks:allow-discards quiet
        echo    'Initiale Ramdisk wird geladen …'
        initrd  /intel-ucode.img /initramfs-linux.img

My partition setup is like this:

sda                       8:0    0 931,5G  0 disk  
├─sda1                    8:1    0   500M  0 part  /boot/efi
├─sda2                    8:2    0   500M  0 part  /boot
└─sda3                    8:3    0 930,5G  0 part  
  └─luks                254:0    0 930,5G  0 crypt 
    ├─vg0-swap          254:1    0     8G  0 lvm   [SWAP]
    ├─vg0-root          254:2    0   100G  0 lvm   /
    ├─vg0-mysql         254:3    0    20G  0 lvm   /var/lib/mysql
    ├─vg0-VirtPool      254:4    0   400G  0 lvm   /var/lib/libvirt
    ├─vg0-ARCHIV        254:5    0   150G  0 lvm   /home/x/ARCHIV
    └─vg0-Data 254:6    0    60G  0 lvm   /var/lib/data

Does this help?

arch_fuz

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Registered: 2015-01-31

Posts: 53

Re: [SOLVED] Booting Image of Laptop Harddisk in different Computer

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mi … bootloader

Thanks for the URL. Right now I do not know what to reconfigure at all...

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] Booting Image of Laptop Harddisk in different Computer

I have a /boot/grub/grub.cfg, so I guess my boot loader is grub.

Choosing a bootloader is a essential step in the installation guide.
Are you sure you followed the latest version of it when you last installed archlinux ?

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arch_fuz

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Re: [SOLVED] Booting Image of Laptop Harddisk in different Computer

Thanks for trying to help me, Lone_Wolf.

Just a view moments ago, I got it running.
I will post back here if I can tell for sure which of the applied modifications was triggering success.

arch_fuz

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Registered: 2015-01-31

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Re: [SOLVED] Booting Image of Laptop Harddisk in different Computer

Hi.
Just in case someone will come over this and has a similar problem...

It turns out that just adding a boot entry solved the whole thing (no need for manipulating grub or bootimage, even I switched from nvidia to radeon graphics):

# switching to chroot
* Boot from CD/USB
* decrypt encrypted partition
 cryptsetup open /dev/sda3 cryptmapper
* read LVM data
 vgscan
* mount root filesystem and the others
 mount /dev/mapper/vg0-root /mnt
(/dev/sda2 on /boot type ext2 (rw,relatime,stripe=4))
 mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/boot
(/dev/sda1 on /boot/efi type vfat)
 mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot/efi
* chroot: If you are using a Arch Linux live environment, then before configuring the bootloader, change root into the new system:
 arch-chroot /mnt
# this did the trick after running in chroot (leave with exit when done):
efibootmgr --create --disk /dev/sda --part 1 --write-signature --loader /EFI/arch/grubx64.efi --label "GRUB" --verbose

Thanks,
-fuz