#[Solved]Moved ssd with EndevourOS to a different pc, now it won't boot - any way to avoid clean i...

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west stream
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Hi! I've moved my SSD with an (up to date) EndevourOS - from intel i5 3570 to ryzen 5 3600 - quite the jump. It's not surprising that it's not booting - it's saying that no valid boot media has been detected.

I have important data on a separate home partition, so that's not a problem, but - is there a way to "update" the system from a live USB without a complete reinstall of the boot partition? I don't have my config saved, and I'd really prefer to not have to reconfigure and reinstall everything from scratch.
Is there a way to do it painlessly? Do I just chroot and do update-grub? I haven't really tried anything yet to not screw up by accident.

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I'm using UEFI boot, if that changes anything.

ocean sorrel
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turn off secure boot on the new machine

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you will also need to make a new boot entry

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cause your uefi has no idea that grub exists

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use efibootmgr from a livecd

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the rest of your problems will stem from the system being installed with intel in mind

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you'll need to uninstall intel-ucode and install amd-ucode

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then probably reconfigure grub

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i strongly recommend just reinstalling

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you can copy your home dir to another drive etc and do the next install with separate home and root partitions

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it will make this sort of thing much easier in the future

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is the gpu different?

west stream
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gpu is the same, there's just 2 now

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of the same ones

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so I dont think it'll matter

ocean sorrel
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if you have a separate home partition you should be good to reinstall

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most things store their config in ~/.config

ocean sorrel
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cause idk if you'll need to install extra stuff to use crossfire/sli

west stream
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nvidia, 1050ti

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no sli

ocean sorrel
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oh so just two separate gpus

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we'll see what happens then ig ¯_(ツ)_/¯

west stream
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yep, I'll do the chrooting in a second, wired internet isn't working on the liveusb for some reason...

ocean sorrel
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hmm

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weird

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you're using an archiso right not some other arch based iso?

west stream
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I'm using endevourOS iso

ocean sorrel
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hmm

west stream
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turns out I need to use the older driver

ocean sorrel
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right

west stream
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not the default one

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it prompts on livecd startup

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which is weird, but...

ocean sorrel
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yep, i used to use endeavour too lol, you should still be able to use the current nvidia driver with a 1050Ti

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¯_(ツ)_/¯

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i presume the "older driver" just means you'll end up using noveau

west stream
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nope - I meant the older driver for network card, to fix the no internet problem. Every time you boot a livecd of endevourOS and some other systems, it prompts you with a newer driver for your network card, which is the default, and an older one, I had to pick the older one

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first time it happened to me, really

west stream
west stream
# ocean sorrel i'd do it from arch-chroot but technically you wouldn't need to

now when I try to boot with the SSD with the flash drive with live ISO inserted, it just shows VT in top left corner endlessly. When liveCD is removed, it returns to the old message of no proper boot media, press a key yada yada you know the message
I made sure that I boot from the SSD every time, yet the output changes if depending if the usb drive is inserted or not

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I ran efibootmgr -c
and the usual chroot stuff

ocean sorrel
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hmm

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do you have an image of the error?

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it may just be easier to spend the 3 minutes installing endeavour again lol

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and telling it to use your existing home partition

west stream
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I fixed this problem, but I couldn't get graphics to show due to gpu errors, so I reinstalled it in the end

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