[TriLUG] New disk woes ( 9th )

[William Sutton via TriLUG]

Second obvious (?) question:  do you have a boot difference between BIOS 
mode and UEFI mode on one or the other disk?

William Sutton

On Wed, 10 Aug 2022, William Sutton via TriLUG wrote:

> Before the more intelligent minds than mine get involved, I'm going to ask 
> the obvious stupid question:  If you put your old disk back in the G7, 
> will it still boot?
>
> William Sutton
>
> On Tue, 9 Aug 2022, Brian McCullough via TriLUG wrote:
>
>>
>> I hope that I get the help that this group is known for, this time.
>>
>>
>> I bought a new Crucial SSD for my HP Pavilion G7 laptop that I use for
>> most of my work, and proceeded to replace the existing spinning 1 TB
>> drive.  They are both SATA and of the same form factor, so I expected
>> there not to be any problems.
>>
>> I was wrong.
>>
>>
>> I started by removing the original drive and taking both to a second
>> machine and started rsyincing the LVM partitions from the old to the
>> new.
>>
>> That seemed to work properly.  I knew that the new drive was not
>> bootable, so prepred a Debian Netinst memory stick.
>>
>> I put it in the G7 and could not seem to make it install to the new
>> drive.
>>
>> I then took both parts to the machine where I did the rsync and
>> proceeded to run the Debian Netinst to prepare the new disk as a new
>> installable drive.  I made sure that I was choosing the correct
>> partitions on the new drive when running the partitioner during the
>> install.
>>
>> Debian claimed that the installation was successful.
>>
>> I took the drice to the G7, and it won't boot.
>>
>> I have a Ubuntu live CD ( DVD ), and a couple of different USB sticks,
>> and they all seem to work in that machine.
>>
>>
>> Any suggested tools to get me working again?
>>
>>
>> Help Please?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Brian
>>
>>
>>
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