On Wed Jul 27 10:30:05 2022 tony <li...@vanderhoff.org> wrote:
> I turned on my main home server after a few weeks absence, and got > smoke from its power supply. Fortunately, I have a backup system, > which does work; both are running Debian 10, so I swapped use to that > machine. and am able to work with that, but some of the files and > settings are a bit out of date. > > I decided to move the disk from the broken machine to the backup, but > on booting I'm dropped into a grub screen saying disk id <blablabla> > not found. Not entirely surprising perhaps. > > So, how do I get it to recognize, and boot from the old disK. You might not be able to. I once had a power supply fail in such a way as to destroy the motherboard and the two hard drives in the machine. I lost about 180GB of stuff, only some of which I was able to replace. My backups are _much_ better now. Let's hope you're luckier than that. -- /~\ Charlie Gibbs | Life is perverse. \ / <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> | It can be beautiful - X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | but it won't. / \ if you read it the right way. | -- Lily Tomlin