said Dr. Nikolaus Klepp: | Anno domini 2021 Fri, 20 Aug 00:02:18 +0000 | | dep scripsit: | > So, then. I popped into the bios yet again. It lists four boot | > options. One is UEFI-something; two are Ubuntu-something (and based on | > what appear to be hard drive serial numbers, those two seem to be the | > same); and one is Ubuntu-something that is the SSD. Booting to the | > last of these produces the black acreen and flashing cursor. Booting | > to the UEFI-something seems to boot okay, producing the grub menu but | > booting me to sda1 no matter what I choose from the menu. But --AHA? | > -- choosing one of the plain Ubuntu choices (I don't know which one, | > because they appear identical) allows me to choose from the grub menu | > to boot the Linux on sdc1 and when I make that choice, I appear to | > actually boot sdc1. from "mount" output: | > | > /dev/sdc1 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro) | > | > What I can't figure out is how this got changed from what worked | > before, and how to keep it from changing again. | | As said, swap the 2 sata ports. If it boots reliably from sdc1, as it does now, why would I want to do that? | And get rid of the old OS on sda1 :) I may not have been clear as to my purpose. The OS on sda1 is *identical* to the one on the SSD, sdc1. I hope to take advantage of the improved speed of the SSD, but I do not utterly trust SSDs (nor hard drives, but I come closer to trusting those). By having both, should the SSD fail I can simply boot an identical system by making that choice in the GRUB menu. So in this case it really is a feature, not a bug. -- 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
