System recovery woes

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 7:48 AM, compdoc <compdoc at hotrodpc.com> wrote:
>>I have a new mainboard and all new controllers.  Now I need to
>>restore.  Putting data back on disk is not a problem, but getting it
>>to boot is surprisingly hard.  This is where I could use some help.
>>The system was Natty, and that's how I'm trying to restore it.
>
> When weird things happen, there's always a reason. Finding the reason can be
> the hard part for people without experience.
>
> If you're reusing the hard drives, make sure you check the SMART data for
> each drive with gnome-disk-utility. If you have reallocated sectors on any
> drive, replace it.

The drives are reused but newish, and none has SMART tripped.

> Power supplies shouldn't be overlooked either. I've replaced many for bad
> capacitors and burned components inside.

In any event, I have no reason to suspect hardware trouble.  Perhaps I
didn't say it, but a newly-installed 11.04 partition boots just fine.
I just cannot get my recovered stuff to boot.  I've had trouble with
the grub tools, and also suspect that my backup .tar files may not
include everything they need.

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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD