On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 5:11 PM toddandmargo via users users@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
---- On Wed, 08 Jul 2020 13:54:29 -0700 Jonathan Billings billings@negate.org wrote ----
On Jul 8, 2020, at 16:32, toddandmargo via users users@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
Hi All,
I need to migrate a Fedora server from a mechanical hard drive running legacy boot to an NVMe drive that requires EUFI to boot.
Am I stuck reinstalling everything?
Is this a BIOS limitation? I don’t think there’s any reason why you couldn’t boot via legacy to a GPT-labeled disk with GRUB installed.
But if you are migrating, you could boot off the old disk with the nvme hardware attached, and set it up with a UEFI partition, a separate /boot partition, and the rest as LVM, and then migrate the data. Once you have the correct UUID of the non-LVM volumes updated in your fstab, and the grub2-efi-x86_64 package installed, you can give it a try to switch over.
The motherboard has both legacy and eufi on it.
The original drive was partitioned as msdos and Fedora was installed as legacy boot.
The new NVMe drive requires EUFI to be seen by the bios and by Fedora . Fedora requires gtp to install to an NVMe drive
Even though I knew it would not work, I tried clonzilla'ing the two.
Odd since you can restore one partition at a time in clonezilla. So, if you partition new drive (LVM/whatever), you then feed the partitions. But I have only done that by first creating a clonezilla server.
The issue stands that the new drive has to be gpt, have a 1 mb empty space at the beginning to accommodate the EUFI boot stuff and another partition for Fedora to handle the EUFI boot stuff
I currently have the NVMe drive with Xfce and FC32 installed on it. But I now have the bios back to legacy and the NVMe drive has disappeared again (which is what I temporarily want).
What if you boot off a liveCD and then move the bits you want to save, mentioned below? Also, your box cannot boot off the NVMe drive and then mount old drive?
The scope of this server has changed dramatically, so reinstalling might no be such a bad idea. It would dump a lot of sins of the past. I just was to restore users, groups, /home, /export, samba, ftp and I am good to go.
I take you are then just rsyncing it?
Oh, and I am upgrading the old server from 30 to 32 at the moment
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