Problems installing grub

[Kevin O'Gorman]

Hmm.  never mind about 1B, it turns out to be problems with UUIDS in
/etc/fstab.  I didn't realize they would change in the cloning proces.  1A
is still a puzzle though.

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 9:35 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm having problems...  and because I'm doing something a bit tricky, I'm
> probably confused.
>
> I have to send my motherboard in for a warranty repair, and don't want my
> system out of service longer than an hour or so.  I have to send the HDD in
> with it because of the kind of problem I'm having ("stability").  So I've
> made a clone of all of the partitions on another drive and I'm trying to
> make it work.  It's not going well.
>
> Several things are bothering me, but I'll just describe the first one.  It
> won't boot from the hard drive.
>
> Now I'm guessing it's because the two drives are different sizes, so I
> used gdisk to put a GPT partition table on the new drive and set up
> partitions to match the old one, then used gparted to copy the ext4
> partition contents over.  I used dd to copy the boot partition.
>
> I figured I use grub itself to do this.  I have a Mushkin USB stick with
> Xubuntu 16.04.1 on it, both 32 and 64 bit.  So I boot from the Mushkin, run
> update-grub, and then grub-install to the HDD.
>
> Problem 1A: this works from the 32-bit version.  Fails from the 64-bit
> version with the message
>
> grub-install: error: /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/modinfo.sh doesn't exist.
> Please specify --target or --directory.
>
> Problem 1B: even after installing from 32-bit version, booting from HDD
> takes me to an emergency mode where I can look at a log.  There are
> messages in red, but they run off the right edge of my screen, and I don't
> fully understand them -- but they seem to be about mounting some of my
> partitions.  I'm not clear on how to copy that log so I can show it to
> you.  I can escape out of the rescue mode, and there's a twirling thing
> that usually means it's about to ask me to log in, but it never gets
> there.  If I boot into rescue mode, I can get to a command prompt, and it
> looks like my partitons are mounted, so I don't know what the problem
> really is.
>
> Can anybody help me with this?
>
> --
> Kevin O'Gorman
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