On 02/09/2020 17:19, C Wills wrote: > Interesting meeting last night especially about the keyboard settings, > found several things about the PC keyboard I was using and it's > additional keys. > > Sorry this is a long email. > Now to my problem: While trying to upgrade from Mint 19.3 to Mint 20 > problems arose which have stop me using the Laptop (I'm on our PC for > now). > Long story so cutting it short. During the upgrade I used the 'other' > option as the laptop has 4 partitions:- sda1= OS (Mint) system files, > sda2=swop, sda3=Home, sda4=odds area. > Previous upgrades I've reformatted sda1 and left all other 'as is' and > it's worked every time (till now). > Now sda1 is empty (no files to be seen), all others still OK. > Fault now says ' no UEFI file to be found' (or similar words) > With Ralphs help we have established that the BIOS does support UEFI > and it uses MBR(?) for Grub2. > > Can now only use a Live Disk to operate the Laptop. Gparted shows > partitions and confirms OS is empty. > > From a 'live disk' would like to copy sda3 to another disk (USB 160Gb > with 2 partitions - sdb1=NTFS and sdb2= Ext4 140Gb) before trying to > re-install and ignoring the warnings!. > BUT > I can only copy sda3 to any /other/ location (sdb2) by becoming 'Root' > and when I've done this before I've ended up with all Directories and > files being 'Owned' by Root and lost 'my' ownership. > > How can I copy sda3 to sdb2 using a 'live disk' conserving all > properties.. All programs I've got don't seems to allow this. I'm > normally a GUI user not terminal user unless I have a command to copy > exactly, any help please? > > PS Laptop works fine from the live DVD ISO's of both Mint versions. > Hello Clive,
Do you have a backup you can restore before attempting to upgrade again? This would probably be the easiest option. I would also recommend using the "mintupgrade" tool, as suggested by the Mint team at https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/upgrade-to-mint-20.html A long shot, but did you happen to have the 32-bit version of Linux Mint 19.3 installed? Hamish
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