Re: migrating drives on UEFI systems

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Tim via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 于2020年6月22日周一 下午1:44写道:
>
> 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
How it didn't want to boot,  did you enter the GRUB or just stuck in
UEFI or something else? I'd guess you stuck at UEFI stage and can't
enter GRUB.
> "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.
>
> If it makes any difference, I can't recall if I plugged it into the
> same SATA port on the motherboard.  It's a board with 6 sockets, and
For most motherboards, this will not affect if you have removed the
old disk,  UEFI will search for available EFI partitions.

But you need to recreate boot entries via efibootmgr or grub2-install.
> I'm only using two of them (DVD and HDD).
>
> I did get it to boot by messing with the boot menus in UEFI, but it was
> quite hit-and-miss about what to boot from.  I can't remember now if I
> selected the drive with it on, or the entry with the release's name in
> it, but neither worked on the first boot.  It was a few reboots before
> I got it to go.
>
> --
>
> uname -rsvp
> Linux 3.10.0-1127.10.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jun 3 14:28:03 UTC 2020 x86_64
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