I decided to install pureOS in replacement of debian for my server. I used clonezilla to copy all data to another disk. I cannot boot from it. What other things do I need to do to get this working? I get a decrypt screen but it says it’s waiting foa disk or somethibg for ages then I fall in a initramfs escape thing. I’m guessing I need to fix UUIDs but I feel very lost. Can anyone give me a comprehensive guide in fixing?
edit: starting to think I did the cloning incorrectly now. I have some timeshift backups on another disk just in case everything fails because this disk does currently have a few bad sectors now. Can someone guide me on moving everything? Please do not give only solution as just moving a few files in my /home because I have more than that on this system.
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Some images can be found here:
https://mega.nz/folder/FY9iXIQQ#AdeArtByXqmaaXJWTCaULg
Please clarify.
You got a server with an debian installation on its disk. You copied an image of the whole disk inclusive all partitions to a second disk. You overrode the first disk with a fresh installation of PureOS.
Is that correct?
From which disk do you want to boot?
what? Debian was old and I moved to pureOS before all of this. There is no disk with debian in this. I have pureOS encrypted LVM on a disk that is dying. How do I move it to a new disk with clonezilla? I cloned it over to the new disk. I get errors as described. I want to boot from the disk I cloned to. I throw away the original disk.
edit: To be clear, this was a disk to disk, NOT image creation.
Currently running a ddrescue booted from a flash drive. Finishes in predicted ~5 hours. If this doesn’t work either, I don’t know.
So I did that and still same error. I don’t know what to do.
Okay I haven’t got much aid here and other places on moving data and I tested in a vm for trisquel and it worked fine but pureOS can’t handle. I’m going to be manually moving over some files over to a new trisquel install and reconfigure a few programs because I’ve been on and off trying to fix this dumpster fire to no success. Bye pureOS
Moved over all data to my trisquel now and just need to configure 2 programs for maybe 2 hours total and wipe old disks before passing to a friend. Thanks anyways for having a libre distro even if it doesn’t work for me.