Re: migrating drives on UEFI systems

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On Mon, 2020-06-22 at 15:12 +0930, Tim via users wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On the old BIOS systems, if I wanted to swap hard drives on a system
> (e.g. move over to a bigger one), I could clone it off-line, then swap
> over, and it'd just work.
> 
> Should I expect a UEFI system to do it that simply?
> 
> And do secure boot options throw any spanners in the works, too?
> 
> 
> I tried this last night, and it didn't want to boot.  I cloned it using
> "dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb" while booted from a gparted ISO on a USB
> flashdrive (current release). Shut down.  Unplugged the old drive. 
> Rebooted.

Surely if you're moving to a larger disk, you don't want 'dd', which
will just clone the exact same partition table and sizes?

poc
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