[PLUG] Transplanting harddisk

[Russell Senior]

I tried that too.

On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 2:48 PM Vince Winter <vince.winter at freegeek.org> wrote:
>
> Well too late.
>
> grub reinstall may have worked.
>
> On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 2:23 PM Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net>
> wrote:
>
> > I ended up reinstalling from scratch and restoring /home from a backup. I
> > don't think modeset would have been related, since it was not getting as
> > far as grub. I suspect it was an EFI mismatch problem.
> >
> > On Sat, Dec 26, 2020, 14:20 Vince Winter <vince.winter at freegeek.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hello Russel,
> > >
> > > Maybe try "nouveau.modeset=0" OR "nomodeset" kernel parameter. I had to
> > do
> > > that sometimes to get nvidia to display before installing drivers.
> > >
> > > Any luck?
> > >
> > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 11:56 AM John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 03:24:10 -0800
> > > > Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net> dijo:
> > > >
> > > > >From a live boot, I can get a console, but not a desktop. This might
> > > > >be due to a KVM switch in the middle.
> > > > >
> > > > >From the live booted Ubuntu 20.04.1, I was able to chroot into my hard
> > > > >disk and apt install nvidia-340, and reboot. This made no difference.
> > > > >I live booted again, and did an update-grub and rebooted. No
> > > > >difference. There is a /dev/sda1 with UEFI looking files on it, but
> > > > >EFI booting is turned off in BIOS (turning it on doesn't help, I tried
> > > > >that).
> > > > >
> > > > >I am about to break out another monitor I can connect directly. Maybe
> > > > >after sleeping on it.
> > > >
> > > > Sleeping on a monitor is not recommended - probably uncomfortable.
> > > >
> > > > I did a similar thing a year ago when I bought a new Thinkpad and
> > > > ported 18.04 to it from my old laptop. With help I used dd to copy /
> > > > and /home from the old computer to the new bare drive in the Thinkpad.
> > > > Both laptops had nVidia video, but different versions. And the screen
> > > > in the old laptop was 1920x1080, where the Thinkpad had UHD 3840x2160.
> > > >
> > > > I was luckier than you. The Thinkpad booted OK, even at UHD, although
> > > > there were many error messages relating to nVidia drivers not working.
> > > > Eventually I discovered (lshw -c video) that the Thinkpad was booting
> > > > with its Intel video. I searched in Synaptic for 'nvidia' and found
> > > > that three different drivers were installed, all the wrong ones for the
> > > > Thinkpad. I went to nvidia.com and found the number of the correct
> > > > driver for the Thinkpad. But I installed it from the Ubuntu repos
> > > > rather than downloading it from their website. This was a bit of a
> > > > guess, because the Ubuntu repo people add the proprietary drivers, but
> > > > in the process they rename them (what were they thinking?).
> > Fortunately,
> > > > I got the right one and when I rebooted there were no more error
> > > > messages and it booted much faster. And lshw -c video told me that I
> > > > was running both the Intel and the nVidia video. This is the best deal,
> > > > because it normally runs with the Intel (easier on the battery) and
> > > > seamlessly switches to nVidia when it needs to.
> > > >
> > > > The nVidia drivers normally install their little GUI configuration
> > > > widget 'NVIDA X Server Settings' which allows you to change a lot of
> > > > things, including resolution. I've never needed to use it, though. And
> > > > there's also xrandr, but I don't know how it plays with the nVidia GUI.
> > > > And there's also a video log somewhere in /var/log/, but I can't
> > > > remember what it's called - 'xconfig.log' or something like than,
> > > > unless Ubuntu decided to change it to something else. And when all else
> > > > fails I consult the Ubuntu forums for more tricks and tips.
> > > >
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