Anno domini 2021 Fri, 13 Aug 14:28:14 +0000 dep scripsit: > Greets, folks . . . > > The nifty little WD 500gb SSD has arrived. I stuck it into a little USB > adapter device and seem to have succeeded in dd'ing my boot > partition. /dev/sda1, onto it. I have employed the appropriate utility to > give it a unique ID, and have labeled its first partition as BOOT. (My > home partition, on the existing /dev/sda, is labeled HOME, and /etc/fstab > are edited to mount LABEL=BOOT as / and LABEL=HOME as /home.) > > If things weren't unnecessarily complicated, I could go into the bios and > tell it to boot from USB and check the thing before I mounted it > permanently. Ah, but . . . There's no nice, normal setting to set boot > order in the frigging bios! I can't tell it to just boot from USB and call > it a day. Instead, it offers a variety of choices that include booting > from a drive that has no operating system at all, so it's not smart or > anything like that. > > I did update-grub on the existing hard drive installation and it saw and > added the SSD install. Here things get weird: sometimes it shows it and > sometimes it doesn't. Ubuntu in its wisdom has screwed around with the > GRUB2 menu. Initially it didn't't show up at all; after I dicked around > with it a little a few days ago I got it to appear. Even then, it isn't a > GRUB menu as we know it. > > By fiddling around with the bios I can get a menu that contains the > SSD -- /dev/ssd1 -- to show up in the GRUB menu, but sometimes not. And > even then, if I select the SSD installation, it does fiddle a little with > the SSD on the way in, but boots to the /dev/sda1 install. > > Now, this is especially problematic because the hard drive boot is, as I > mentioned, from /dev/sda1, while /home is /dev/sda3, so just yanking that > drive is not among the relatively convenient possibilities. > > I'd like to boot from it, of course, for reasons including the ability to > run update-grub on it, so that the default boot would be from the SSD when > it is happily installed in the system. (After which I'd open a terminal > and again run update-grub so that GRUB would get everything in its final > configuration, with booting from the hard drive possible in case of SSD > failure.) > > Any ideas? Prefarably as opposed to guesses? UEFI? Nik > -- > dep > > Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album > Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/ > ____________________________________________________ > tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
