[tde-users] Re: SDD puzzle

said Thierry de Coulon: | On Thursday 19 August 2021 18.46:45 dep wrote: | was the 20.04-LTS installation on /dev/sdc1. I chose it. | | > And it booted forthwith -- to the 20.04-LTS installation on /dev/sda1. | > No errors, nothing. Just booted the wrong drive. | > | > The SDD (sdc) is working fine -- I can mount it, navigate in it, read | > and write to it. | > | > Any troubleshooting ideas that don't involve disassembly? This was | > working fine yesterday and isn't today. | > -- | > dep | | BIOS? I suggest this because I just had something like that: I installed | Devuan chimaera and... my computer stopped booting. | | The BIOS had thought "logical" to change the boot disk from my nvme to | the SSD I had installed on (actually this happened after installing TDE, | installation that apparently triggered some recreation of the | initrd.img...) You were right, it appears. I've been annoyed by literally hundreds of bioses over the last decades, but I've never totally hated one as much as I hate this Asus UEFI bios, which in addition to being all over the place is the most poorly documented piece of computer hardware I've ever encountered, limiting itself to stating the blindingly obvious. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/