On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 5:11 PM toddandmargo via users
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> ---- On Wed, 08 Jul 2020 13:54:29 -0700 Jonathan Billings <billings@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote ----
> > On Jul 8, 2020, at 16:32, toddandmargo via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > Hi All,
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> > > I need to migrate a Fedora server from a mechanical hard drive
> > > running legacy boot to an NVMe drive that requires EUFI to
> > > boot.
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> > > Am I stuck reinstalling everything?
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> > Is this a BIOS limitation? I don’t think there’s any reason why you couldn’t boot via legacy to a GPT-labeled disk with GRUB installed.
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> > But if you are migrating, you could boot off the old disk with the nvme hardware attached, and set it up with a UEFI partition, a separate /boot partition, and the rest as LVM, and then migrate the data. Once you have the correct UUID of the non-LVM volumes updated in your fstab, and the grub2-efi-x86_64 package installed, you can give it a try to switch over.
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> The motherboard has both legacy and eufi on it.
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> The original drive was partitioned as msdos and Fedora was installed as legacy boot.
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> The new NVMe drive requires EUFI to be seen by the bios and by Fedora . Fedora
> requires gtp to install to an NVMe drive
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> Even though I knew it would not work, I tried clonzilla'ing the two.
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Odd since you can restore one partition at a time in clonezilla.
So, if you partition new drive (LVM/whatever), you then feed the
partitions. But I have only done that by first creating a clonezilla
server.
> The issue stands that the new drive has to be gpt, have a 1 mb empty space
> at the beginning to accommodate the EUFI boot stuff and another partition
> for Fedora to handle the EUFI boot stuff
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> I currently have the NVMe drive with Xfce and FC32 installed on it. But
> I now have the bios back to legacy and the NVMe drive has disappeared
> again (which is what I temporarily want).
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What if you boot off a liveCD and then move the bits you want to
save, mentioned below? Also, your box cannot boot off the NVMe drive
and then mount old drive?
> The scope of this server has changed dramatically, so reinstalling might
> no be such a bad idea. It would dump a lot of sins of the past. I just
> was to restore users, groups, /home, /export, samba, ftp and I am
> good to go.
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I take you are then just rsyncing it?
> Oh, and I am upgrading the old server from 30 to 32 at the moment
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> -T
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