20 Aug
2021
20 Aug
'21
1:40 p.m.
said Dr. Nikolaus Klepp:
| Anno domini 2021 Fri, 20 Aug 00:02:18 +0000
|
| dep scripsit:
| > So, then. I popped into the bios yet again. It lists four boot
| > options. One is UEFI-something; two are Ubuntu-something (and based on
| > what appear to be hard drive serial numbers, those two seem to be the
| > same); and one is Ubuntu-something that is the SSD. Booting to the
| > last of these produces the black acreen and flashing cursor. Booting
| > to the UEFI-something seems to boot okay, producing the grub menu but
| > booting me to sda1 no matter what I choose from the menu. But --AHA?
| > -- choosing one of the plain Ubuntu choices (I don't know which one,
| > because they appear identical) allows me to choose from the grub menu
| > to boot the Linux on sdc1 and when I make that choice, I appear to
| > actually boot sdc1. from "mount" output:
| >
| > /dev/sdc1 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
| >
| > What I can't figure out is how this got changed from what worked
| > before, and how to keep it from changing again.
|
| As said, swap the 2 sata ports.
If it boots reliably from sdc1, as it does now, why would I want to do
that?
| And get rid of the old OS on sda1 :)
I may not have been clear as to my purpose. The OS on sda1 is *identical*
to the one on the SSD, sdc1. I hope to take advantage of the improved
speed of the SSD, but I do not utterly trust SSDs (nor hard drives, but I
come closer to trusting those). By having both, should the SSD fail I can
simply boot an identical system by making that choice in the GRUB menu. So
in this case it really is a feature, not a bug.
--
dep
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