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#1 2020-02-01 18:25:22

derekthesnake
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Registered: 2020-02-01
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Error when migrating arch install from one computer to another

I recently bought a new computer and an SSD. I want to clone my current install of arch to this new SSD to boot in the new computer. The new computer does have a more recent processor, but they are both intel.

I have:

  1. created a main partition and a swap partition on the SSD

  2. copied the files from my current main partition to the SSD partition using rsync

  3. re-generated fstab

  4. re-installed grub

  5. re-created grub config file

After all of this, I was met with this upon boot:

Starting version 244.1-1-arch
ERROR: device 'UUID=<SSD main partition uuid>' not found. Skipping fsck.
mount: /new_root: can't find UUID=<SSD main partition uuid>.
You are now being dropped into an emergency shell.
sh: can't access tyy; job control turned off
[rootfs ]#

I can't type at this prompt.

I checked my fstab and grub.cfg files, and both contain UUIDs that match the UUID shown in this error. I can manually check the partition UUID by mounting the SSD on my current machine, and the UUID matches the error message and the files.

After researching for a long time, I've only seen a few other issues like this. One of them had to do with the systemd-240 bug, but I don't have that version (obviously, that was years ago).
Another possible solution someone posted was installing the microcode package. On my current machine I do not have them installed, so I arch-chrooted into the SSD and installed the intel-ucode package, and re-generated the grub config file. This did not solve my problem.

I'm at a loss and out of ideas. I'd really appreciate any input. Thanks!

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#2 2020-02-01 18:39:18

derekthesnake
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Registered: 2020-02-01
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Re: Error when migrating arch install from one computer to another

Ah. Solved. I read the second post down on the forum and found that I should execute

mkinitcpio -p linux

which solved my problem.

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#3 2020-02-01 20:15:53

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Re: Error when migrating arch install from one computer to another

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