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Sorry for the long post, as I want to be as detailed as possible to solve my issue.
Background:
I have 2 laptops - A Dell Precision 5540 (Core i9, 32 GB, 1TB NVME and NVIDIA Quadro T2000) and Dell Precision 7530 (Xeon, 32 GB, 1TB NVME and Dual GPU - Intel + NVIDIA P3200). The computers have wifi internet connection and also a local LAN, which is connected to a server, but has no internet. The computers share a common Dell 4323 monitor, with PbP using HDMI interface.
The Arch Linux, using systemd-boot manager, I have is the latest release with all the necessary -Syu updates performed till Sunday, April 13. DT environment is KDE Plasma. For the past few months I have been playing with the Arch Linux for a project on the 5540. I am at a point all my programs, features, files, modules, and settings are to the way the production would look like. I want to replicate these exact same configuration onto the 7530.
Cloning:
Following are the general steps I did with rsync:
1. I started in live boot with rsync and cloned the drives except for the folders: /dev/*, /proc/*, /sys/*, /tmp/*, /run/*, /mnt/*, /media/*, /lost+found.
2. Then followed with binding the following folders in chroot:
mount --bind /dev /mnt/newroot/dev
mount --bind /proc /mnt/newroot/proc
mount --bind /sys /mnt/newroot/sys
3. Installed boot-ctl
4. Modified the arch.conf with new UUID for the disk.
5. Updated the fstab with new UUID for boot and systemd drives
6. Tested the cloned drive on 5540 and everything was good.
Issues with Running Cloned Machine:
Then I moved the drive onto 7530. And it started giving me issues:
1. Couldn't detect any networks - LAN or WLAN. Fixed the LAN first, going through multiple iterations using live environment, as I had no internet.
2. Got the wireless working, after it seemed like the 2 WLAN cards were slightly different. Again worked through live environment and got it working.
3. The problem really started when connecting the monitor to the 7530. First it did not detect and the builtin monitor showed unknown. Proceeded with blacklisting the Intel GPU in the conf file.
4. Then after several tries, the external monitor started showing at the log-in page but disappeared in the desktop environment. The screen appears dark. I can move the mouse over there but no picture is displayed. The monitor is detected in Display Configuration with correct size and refresh rate. The built-in monitor still says "uknown".
5. Somehow the JSON file in kscreen did not exist and after creating it, was just not loading.
6. Created a backup of ~/.local/share/kscreen and mv ~/.cache/kscreen to reload plasma, that's when I lost all the settings and the LAN disappeared. Also after trying to load from backup, nothing happened.
I have read part of this wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Migrat … w_hardware.
I want to know what would be the best way to clone the computers without any issues. Because certainly at least in my case the top to bottom somehow did not work. Also, I do not recollect encountering the pacstrap command when I first installed Arch as mentioned in the wiki.
Thank you in advance for your help.
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