[mythtv-users] impending failure

[Daryl McDonald]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 5:44 PM Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 5:15 PM Jerry <mythtv at hambone.e4ward.com> wrote:
>
>> I'd double-check those UUIDs to make sure they are the same.  Also, you
>> may have to reinstall grub as Simon Hobson just said.  You may be missing
>> the bootloader.
>>
>> The below link is one way to do it.  It involves burning a CD with a
>> self-help installation.
>>
>> https://www.howtogeek.com/114884/how-to-repair-grub2-when-ubuntu-wont-boot/
>>
>> There are command-line ways to do it as well.  Here is a Google search of
>> the topic.
>> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=reinstall+grub2+ubuntu
>>
>> Wait, this is a storage drive and not your boot drive?  If that's the
>> case, then you won't need to reinstall grub.
>>
>> What do you mean by the box won't boot?  Do you get an error message, or
>> does nothing happen when you turn the machine on?  If the box is booting
>> but not seeing the old UUIDs, then that could be your problem -- you'll
>> have to get the new ones and put them in /etc/fstab.
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 4:39 PM Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings mythizens, I got a message that a storage drive was about to
>>> fail. I just received the replacement, used gparted to copy and paste from
>>> the failing drive to the new one, and the box won't boot? I thought that
>>> gparted cloned everything including UUID and Labels. Any suggestions?
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>
> I booted from a live USB found the label "storage2" in tact on the cloned
> drive (OS on separate SSD) and went to the how-to-geek and something in the
> boot-repair failed, regrettably I didn't keep the log cause its never
> failed for me before. The good news is that replacing the "about to fail"
> drive into the same power and SATA ports allowed the system to boot and
> handle tonight's recordings.
>
> ubuntu 18.04 desktop on an SSD and three terra-byte HD storage/recording
> drives mythtv 0.29
>
> Should I try dd or some other cloning method tomorrow?
>

unless I'm mistaken the UUID should be irrelevant because I've used the
label to distinguish the three drives
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