swapping the disk, with the operating system, using a clone made with CLONEZILLA

[Angelo Moreschini]

Hi,

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I opened the computer with the new disk
and -this time- miraculously it started perfectly.

It remains me, now, only the problem of the restore grub.

Amazing ... it need to have to have courage....


Thanks for your interest

Angelo

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 1:14 AM, Angelo Moreschini
> <mrangelo.fedora at gmail.com> wrote:
> > However trying to restore on a different (new and virgin) Hard Disk, the
> > operation fails.
>
> That's not specific enough. There are probably hundreds or even
> thousands of reasons for failure. Exactly how does it fail?
> >
> >
> > When I I restore on a virgin HD the computer (after the grub message to
> > choose the OS), loads fedora only in recovery mode ....
>
> OK when you say the restore operation fails, that suggests the restore
> operation did not complete. Now you're suggesting the restore
> completed, but the computer boots in recovery mode.
>
> Please take a photo of the screen when the computer is in this
> recovery mode. It sounds like it's not arriving at basic.target, and
> there are a bunch of reasons for that, but usually with software
> restore this is because /etc/fstab UUID doesn't match the actual
> volume UUID. But that's really basic, I'd think Clonezilla would know
> that if it's doing file copy cloning. And it wouldn't be necessary
> with block level cloning.
>
> So in any case we need more info.
>
> >
> > It is possible to restore the clone on any (different) HD or it is
> possible
> > restore it only on the one HD from where the image was toke?
>
> The answer from Rick is that yes you can restore a clone to a
> different drive. But I can't tell exactly what you're doing step by
> step. So it might be useful to describe exactly how you created the
> clone, and then how you're doing the restore, literally a recipe so
> that someone who has never used clonezilla before could reproduce your
> results.
>
>
> >
> > if the restore can be done to any HD, ...how I can manage the change of
> > symbol attributed to HD?
>
> Since I don't know exactly why it's failing, I can't tell you what or
> how to fix it yet. It could be many things.
>
>
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