[TriLUG] New disk woes

[Brian McCullough via TriLUG]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 12:11:17PM -0400, Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list wrote:
> 1.  I really doubt that the sizes matched up.  Not a spinner to an SSD.
> There is going to be differences in the exact number of blocks.  (Not that
> this is your issue.)

For my purposes, it is "close enough."  I have about 220 GB free in my
VG.


> 2.  I would bet that your UEFI settings for the particular boot partition
> are messed up.  That would explain why neither drive will boot.   There is
> no easy way to tell you how to fix this either.  You kinda have to get in
> there and 'mess with it.'  (this is a technical procedure....)  You can let
> the UEFI "find" the partitions that it sees and try them until you find the
> stanza that will work.

I lean towards this answer.

In my research, I discovered ( was reminded of ) "boot-repair-disk," a
stand-alone bootable ( or Ubuntu application ) utility which seems to be
the answer.  I haven't yet let it do its thing, but it has found
everything visible ( all of the LVs ) on the new drive, and is ready to
go, except that it said that since I was running GPT, I needed a new
partiton ( 1+ MB ).  I am working on resizing the PV to make room for
that.



> Dwain


Brian