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HighValueWarrior

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Migrate From Failed Board to New Motherboard both UEFI

Hello All,

Gigabyte 970A-DS3P failed.
New board Asrock 970A-G/3.1

Installed new board  but get "Reboot and Select Proper Boot Device" error.
Drive is good and seen in bios.

I have been reading the migration page here  https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mi … w_hardware

Efi system partition already there as old board was UEFI systemd.

What am I missing ?
Do I need to chroot in and change a config file somewhere ?

If someone could toss me a bone that would be great.

Last edited by HighValueWarrior (2020-05-10 02:17:08)

Trilby

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Re: Migrate From Failed Board to New Motherboard both UEFI

From the page you linked:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mi … oot_loader

What have you done to add the boot entries to the new nvram?

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HighValueWarrior

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Re: Migrate From Failed Board to New Motherboard both UEFI

If you mean have I tried to make a manual boot entry in the bios, I have not found an option to do that.
I will however take your hint and try to reinstall the bootloader.

loqs

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Re: Migrate From Failed Board to New Motherboard both UEFI

If you mean have I tried to make a manual boot entry in the bios, I have not found an option to do that.

From the link Trilby posted -> UEFI -> efibootmgr

Trilby

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Re: Migrate From Failed Board to New Motherboard both UEFI

If you use a bootloader, reinstalling it would do it - that's not the package but the bootloader itself, e.g., syslinux_install_update or grub-install with the appropriate flags.  If you tell us how you were booting before, we could be more specific but in any case, the firmware variables are stored on the mother board, if you've replaced the motherboard, you've also replaced the firmware nvram which is empty (or perhaps with some default Windows info on it).  The system needs to know what to boot to.

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HighValueWarrior

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Re: Migrate From Failed Board to New Motherboard both UEFI

Thank you Trilby and loqs,

I can't remember what is on the boot partition.
Computer is wife's been a while since I built it ... its either EFI or systemd I will check and report back.

Trilby

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Re: Migrate From Failed Board to New Motherboard both UEFI

its either EFI or systemd

That's not an either or.  But assuming it's systemd-boot (formerly gummiboot) which is not unlikely, then the steps would be here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … ot_manager

Last edited by Trilby (2020-05-10 21:11:20)

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HighValueWarrior

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Re: Migrate From Failed Board to New Motherboard both UEFI

Will bootctl update be enough or will I have to reinstall with  bootctl --path=esp install ?

Trilby

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Re: Migrate From Failed Board to New Motherboard both UEFI

You'll need to install not update.  It is not a reinstall: you've never had your systemd-boot in this firmware.

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Awebb

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Re: Migrate From Failed Board to New Motherboard both UEFI

As a rule of thumb, I never try to fix an EFI bootloader if I don't exactly remember what's going on and instead pretend it's a fresh install.

HighValueWarrior

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Re: Migrate From Failed Board to New Motherboard both UEFI

Success !

I had small issue with the install command as I just copy pasted from the wiki (not the most intuitive section imho) but change path=boot solved it.

Two small issues to be resolved and its perfect.

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I ran lm sensor detect but it is not picking up CPU fan.
Ideas?

Last edited by HighValueWarrior (2020-05-12 03:02:21)

HighValueWarrior

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Re: Migrate From Failed Board to New Motherboard both UEFI

Thank you to Trilby and everyone who posted.