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 ๐
Pretty much exactly my experience and takeaway on both Windows and Linux.
It's definitely not the smoothest launch... But the review bomb has felt a bit undeserved.
Thanks and thanks for the effort you put in.
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.
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.
Thanks for translating ... my brain is completely fried from fighting with this.
I'm giving up on my dd attempt and trying clonezilla (a highly regarded option it seems).
But yeah, welcome to exactly what's driving me crazy. The dd "worked", grub loads, it starts loading Linux ... and then it gets caught trying to find... itself (?)
Like the exact drive that's missing is the drive it would have to find to even be partially operational. The other drives weren't touched and the original drive is unplugged.
There is a btrfs subvolume and they're both part of the same drive ... but it was also copied bit for bit.
IDK... We'll see whether clonezilla works. I've been using Linux over ten years, it's been a long time since I've been this confused.
What does that have to do with any of this?
Are you just trying to start a whimsical side conversation?
They're identical to what they were in the original drive, I've verified it in gparted on a live image.
It's driving me crazy because I can literally find this drive by that UUID in a live image, but when I go to boot the system has no idea what that is.
Except it's not... Ohio has Cedar Point, Kings Island, several well recognized museums, lakes, large state parks and a national park, hiking trails, bike trails, kayaking, just as diverse of a food culture as any other state in the big cities, 3 large metro areas, stadiums, concert halls, etc
The worst thing about Ohio for years has been the Republicans in the state house and this craziness that it's somehow a boring state. If you can't find things to do in Ohio, you haven't tried.
I feel like the mainstream millennial slang was pretty tame.
Maybe this just means I'm officially old now.
Very interesting. I wasn't finding anywhere what the device ID was. Everything was looking like it was copied over from where I was (at least noticing).
Clonezilla seems to have taken care of the necessary updates so if you do this again I'd recommend just using that. I hate that it's yet another special ISO tool to keep around on a USB thumb drive, but if I'd used that from the start several hours of my life would've been saved ๐