[TriLUG] New disk woes ( 13th )

[Roger Broseus via TriLUG]

Brian,

Good track to take - to fresh.

BTU, my personal opinion? Stick w/ Ubuntu 20.04.x or a variant, e.g., Mint. 
I've read about too many bugs in the later version. You might even try that on 
the machine that appears to be broken.

Good luck.

--
Roger W. Broseus - Linux User
     Email:RogerB at bronord.com
     Web Site:www.bronord.com

On 8/13/22 09:19, Brian McCullough via TriLUG wrote:
> Just a final ( not really ) note on my issues with upgrading my laptop.
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> I had decided that, instead of trying to just "fix" the boot issue, I
> would just install a new, upgraded OS, on the new SSD.  Since the parts
> of the disk that would be affected by the install were in partitions
> different from the "important" ones, I felt fairly safe in this answer.
>
> I was also creating brand new partitions for root, usr and var, so that
> I could preserve things that live ouside of home, such as /etc/fstab.
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>
> I had a couple of new installers on USB sticks, Debian 11 and Ubuntu
> 22.04 LTS, so started the process.
>
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> Unfortunately, the installer kept failing, usually early in the process,
> including the step where it loads extra components from the USB stick,
> which has nothing to do with the new drive, and is long before that is
> accessed.
>
> Some of the errors that were showing up on the logging screen made me
> start to be suspicious of the main board, such as clock errors and event
> failures.
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>
> So I have put that on hold while I went to eBay, found a similar but
> newer machine, and ordered it.
>
> We will see what happens when I receive that.
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> Brian
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