[mythtv-users] impending failure

Daryl McDonald darylangela at gmail.com
Mon Oct 29 19:04:55 UTC 2018


On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 11:53 AM Curtis Gedak <gedakc at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you have done a complete image copy of the old drive to the new
> drive, or else copied the partition and restored the ability of GRUB to
> boot [1] on the new drive, then the replacement drive should be good to go.
>
> [1]
>
> https://gparted.org/display-doc.php?name=help-manual#gparted-fix-operating-system-boot-problems
>
> One extra thing to check is that your BIOS/EFI is set to use the new
> drive as the boot drive.  Otherwise it might be looking for the old
> drive, or a different fall-back drive.  Usually the BIOS/EFI set up is
> entered by pressing a key like DELETE or some other key [2].
>
> [2]
>
> https://gparted.org/display-doc.php?name=gparted-live-manual#gparted-live-preparing-bios
>
> 'Hope that helps.
>
> Curtis
>
>
> On 2018-10-29 5:21 a.m., Daryl McDonald wrote:
> > the  box didn't boot yesterday  with the new drive but did with the old
> > going to try clonezilla again today, unless there re better ideas out
> there.
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 7:15 AM Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 4:49 AM Simon Hobson <linux at thehobsons.co.uk>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> When you are copying a failing drive, the best tool to use is ddrescue
> >>>> (from the gddrescue package - do not use dd_rescue which is a
> >>>> different program).
> >>>
> >>> +1 for that, it's the most brilliant tool.
> >>>
> >>> The only time it's failed on me was with a Seagate drive - they went
> >>> through a phase when the drive would, after encountering a certain
> error,
> >>> then fail to respond properly until power cycled. Thus ddrescue would
> >>> progress so far, the drive would encounter an error, then every block
> after
> >>> that would get marked as failed. Lets just say it didn't improve my
> opinion
> >>> of Seagate !
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I had a gap in recordings this morning so I deleted the contents of the new
drive with gparted (and did not format this time) then used clonezilla live
to re-create my recordings on the new drive. It completed successfully this
time, and booted fine in the mythbox. I have a much greater confidence in
this go-round.
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