I wanted to copy my boot drive to a bigger drive so I used Easeus Disk Copy. The copy said it worked fine. I then unplugged the old drive and plugged in the new drive and it looked like it was booting (the fedora icon was about 3/4 full) then it said there was an error and to enter the root password to enter the recovery console. I did that and ran fsck and it said it was unable to resolve UUID=some long number. I thought that I was safe because I still have my original drive. I take out the new drive and put the old one back and try to boot but now the original drive has exactly the same error! This drive was working fine before I did the copy. Is there a way to fix this? I will re-install Amahi if I have to but I just spent days copying all my shared files over to my shares and I don't want to have to do this again if I don't have to. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Quaz
Used Easeus Disk Copy and now both drives don't boot.
Re: Used Easeus Disk Copy and now both drives don't boot.
What you need to do is:
- On boot, enter the root password when asked to.
- Remount / to be writable:
- Look for your boot partition: It should be /dev/sda1, but can be something else. Find the partition that has a * in the 'boot' column.
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- Find the UUID of that partition:
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- Edit /etc/fstab (using nano, or vi), and change the UUID of the / partition to the UUID you just found above.
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- Reboot
- On boot, enter the root password when asked to.
- Remount / to be writable:
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mount -o remount,rw /
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fdisk -l
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Disk /dev/sda: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x20a0c72d
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 2612 20980858+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 2613 243201 1932531142+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 2613 2855 1951866 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 2856 243201 1930579213+ 83 Linux
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ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid | grep sda1
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[gb@hda ~]$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid | grep sda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-07-04 10:04 4245159c-83c1-4db5-a68e-6c1ffd589bfe -> ../../sda1
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UUID=4245159c-83c1-4db5-a68e-6c1ffd589bfe / ext4 defaults 1 1
- Guillaume Boudreau
Re: Used Easeus Disk Copy and now both drives don't boot.
Thanks! This worked.
Quaz
Quaz
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