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ChrisRR

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Registered: 2016-01-20

Posts: 7

Can't boot from a cloned disk

I've recently been filling up my hard disk so I bought a 500GB SSD to replace my 250GB.
I loaded swapped the drives over, loaded up a liveUSB and copied the entire drive using dd.  So my partition table should still be the same.

I tried booting up with the newwly flashed disk in the laptop, grub starts, linux starts to boot and then boot gets stuck on a single flashing line.  It seems to be pretty late in the boot so I don't know if it's failing to start the GUI.

I swapped the old drive back in, which should be byte for byte identical, and the system boots fine.

Does anyone have any ideas?

jasonwryan

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Registered: 2009-05-09

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Re: Can't boot from a cloned disk

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pe … ng#by-uuid

Update your boot loader/manager and /etc/fstab

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