On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 10:42:23AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > Another anomaly is what when I boot the old devuan, the boot goes to > recovery mode despite what is selected in the GRUB menu. A control-D > continues the boot normally. It showed up only fairly recently. But > since I seldom reboot it, I didn't worry much about the issue. The two > disks are almost the same, one being a bit older than the other. My > Debian is on /dev/sdb and I'm installing to /dev/sda, I wonder whether > the mongrolized install might be not be some kind of cross over between > the two devices caused by BIOS.
One trick I've used is to place an identification file in the root of each file system. Such as /I-am-old-devian in /dev/sdb and /I-am-new0devuan in /dev/sda. It might help tell them apart independent of BIOS renumbering. Or maybe you're booting a kernel from the old system with a root file system from the new one? I once had two Debians on my system, a stable one and a testing one, and I messed up my /etc/fstab on one of them so i had a root partition from one mounted with a /usr from another. Total screwup when I did a routine security upgrade. Hard to figure out, because a lot of packages worked with mixed system versions. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
