So, I’m trying to clone an SSD to an NVME drive and I’m bumping into this “dev-disk-by” error when I boot from the NVME (the SSD is unplugged).

I can’t find anyone talking about this in this context. It seems like what I’ve done here should be fine and should work, but there’s clearly something I and the arch wiki are missing.

  • Dark ArcOPAEnglish
    31·
    3 months ago

    Clonezilla just worked. The fstab is unmodified/identical to what dd gave me.

    I really have no idea what clonezilla did differently. Its output was so fast… But yeah, it just worked with that. So I guess I’ll take it.

    Absolutely baffling.

    • s38b35M5@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      Clonezilla runs lots of tasks after (and before) dd that are in the log file(s) on the live environment before you reboot. I haven’t used it in a while, but I’m confident that one of the tasks is updating grub

      • Dark ArcOPAEnglish
        11·
        3 months ago

        I did update grub via a chroot as one of my troubleshooting steps… So I don’t think that was it either. I actually recall it saying something about skipping updating grub (because it was a GPT system without some special flag set I think).

        I remember seeing it do something to the EFI stuff explicitly and I’m wondering if maybe that’s where it did something I didn’t.

      • Dark ArcOPAEnglish
        11·
        3 months ago

        Thanks and thanks for the effort you put in.

    • gencha@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Now that you know the safe way out, break it again with dd and figure out the difference 😁

      Moving from SATA to NVMe is a classic way to break the boot process. Most of the time, you want to boot a recovery mode from USB, mount your existing root and efi partitions, and then just reinstall grub.

      If you’ve managed to recover this way only once, you feel a lot more comfortable in the future if shit goes wrong.

      • Dark ArcOPAEnglish
        21·
        3 months ago

        Most of the time, you want to boot a recovery mode from USB, mount your existing root and efi partitions, and then just reinstall grub.

        I did do that FWIW, but it didn’t do it/it wasn’t enough/it still didn’t work.

        If this was a toy system and/or I was back in college and feeling adventurous, I would definitely be more inclined to try and figure out what happened. As it stands, I just want the thing to work 😅