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cell

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Registered: 2007-10-23

Posts: 111

[SOLVED]Unable to get old install up with new motherboard and efi

Hi

I not able to boot up an old install with a new motherboard, the same setup worked fine with the old motherboard.

From a live cd with uefi boot.

mkdir /mnt/arch
mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/arch
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/arch/boot
mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/arch/home
arch-chroot /mnt/arch

grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=boot --bootloader-id=GRUB
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

When I boot I get thrown into a GRUB shell. The disk is not listed as an UEFI boot disk in the BIOS.

Last edited by cell (2018-10-06 17:51:49)

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

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Re: [SOLVED]Unable to get old install up with new motherboard and efi

GPT or MBR partitioning?

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cell

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Registered: 2007-10-23

Posts: 111

Re: [SOLVED]Unable to get old install up with new motherboard and efi

GPT or MBR partitioning?

parted -l
partition table msdos

/dev/sda1 FAT32, flags, boot and esp.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 12,426

Re: [SOLVED]Unable to get old install up with new motherboard and efi

You can't have an ESP on MBR(msdos). There's simply no such thing. UEFI requries GPT.

cell

Member

Registered: 2007-10-23

Posts: 111

Re: [SOLVED]Unable to get old install up with new motherboard and efi

You can't have an ESP on MBR(msdos). There's simply no such thing. UEFI requries GPT.

I simply do not know. But then I am a bit of a clown

I simply nuked the boot partition because 'hey why not...' so the kernel...yea...I reinstalled the kernel and then changed fstab accordingly.

I am now booting.

Thank you all.