ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 149, Issue 33

Mon Jan 23 02:13:58 UTC 2017

Problem is I thought when I originally move the clone from the old Dell that was dumb when it came to EFI. I thought it would be installed as a Legacy. I assumed it had. I have been cloning the server once a month using for the past three years with no issues under that assumption. When I upgraded my HD clone software to version 6. It wants to run as a EFI. Problem is every time I try and run it from CD it sets spinning wanting to authenticate never starting. So I went back to my Version 5 that only runs in Legacy mode. So I don't know how it would have gotten installed as an EFI I boot. I did get 16.04 LTS as a Legacy install. As said previously I want to copy my apache2 settings, MySQL database and Wordpress, plus virtual hosting over from the install.

Thanks for all your help. I guess. Need to break this bloody server once a month to remember all these steps and configurations.

Mik 

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>   1. Creating a Bios boot partition? (Mike Hughes)
>   2. Creating a Bios boot partition? (Mike Hughes)
>   3. Re: Creating a Bios boot partition? (compdoc)
>   4. Re: Software updater no longer functional (Liam Proven)
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> Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 07:49:16 -0600
> From: Mike Hughes <engineerhughes at comcast.net>
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Creating a Bios boot partition?
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> Ok still going with my never ending Server boot problem. I believe I have discovered the problem. Apparently when I created the backup I should have disabled the EFI booting. Every time when I ran Boot-Repair I was getting a message to boo from a USB in EFI mode. So apparently when I created my Clone it somehow created a EFI boot area. Thus when I restored the backup it can't find boot info in the EFI area. I went into set up and disabled EFI. I ran Boot-Repair and chose options my boot info for Ubuntu showed up I then received an option that said GPT detected. Please create a BIOS Boot Partiton (<-1MB I formatted filesystem, bios_grub flag). It says I can use Gparted to do that. 
> Question,  this is a 14.04 LTS version. Can I use the latest Server software upgrade to it and repair the MBR without erasing my data from the server like my Wordpress installs?
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> Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 07:49:16 -0600
> From: Mike Hughes <engineerhughes at comcast.net>
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Creating a Bios boot partition?
> Message-ID: <DEC8D416-3297-4C13-BADB-C10DB5B5BD11 at comcast.net>
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> Ok still going with my never ending Server boot problem. I believe I have discovered the problem. Apparently when I created the backup I should have disabled the EFI booting. Every time when I ran Boot-Repair I was getting a message to boo from a USB in EFI mode. So apparently when I created my Clone it somehow created a EFI boot area. Thus when I restored the backup it can't find boot info in the EFI area. I went into set up and disabled EFI. I ran Boot-Repair and chose options my boot info for Ubuntu showed up I then received an option that said GPT detected. Please create a BIOS Boot Partiton (<-1MB I formatted filesystem, bios_grub flag). It says I can use Gparted to do that. 
> Question,  this is a 14.04 LTS version. Can I use the latest Server software upgrade to it and repair the MBR without erasing my data from the server like my Wordpress installs?
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 08:35:50 -0700
> From: compdoc <compdoc at hotrodpc.com>
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> Subject: Re: Creating a Bios boot partition?
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>> On 01/21/2017 06:49 AM, Mike Hughes wrote:
>> 
>> I believe I have discovered the problem. Apparently when I created the backup I should have disabled the EFI booting. Every time when I ran Boot-Repair I was getting a message to boo from a USB in EFI mode. So apparently when I created my Clone it somehow created a EFI boot area.
> When you install Ubuntu with the proper UEFI settings enabled, it 
> creates a small Fat32 partition to boot from. Cloning software should 
> simply backup that partition and restore it. If you could boot the 
> cloning software with UEFI enabled, I assume it understands that mode 
> and is able to proceed. So, you should not have to mess with your bios 
> settings now...
> 
>> Thus when I restored the backup it can't find boot info in the EFI area. I went into set up and disabled EFI. I ran Boot-Repair and chose options my boot info for Ubuntu showed up I then received an option that said GPT detected. Please create a BIOS Boot Partiton (<-1MB I formatted filesystem, bios_grub flag). It says I can use Gparted to do that.
> 
> GPT is a different partition type than MBR, and it needs to be the same 
> type it was before you cloned. Whenever I've tried to switch from one 
> type to the other, it wipes out the current partitions and new 
> partitions have to be created.
> 
> Here's a gparted screenshot of my partitions in a 16.04 install with 
> UEFI enabled. The partition setup should look the same with your 
> version. When you restored, it should recreate all partitions that 
> existed before. Boot gparted and see whats there...
> 
> http://imgur.com/a/ZfOUu
> 
> Can HDClone 5 restore a single partition? Maybe you can try setting your 
> bios options to the way they were originally, (when it was working) then 
> install a fresh copy of ubuntu to create the correct partitions, and 
> then restore only the main partition.
> 
>> Question,  this is a 14.04 LTS version. Can I use the latest Server software upgrade to it and repair the MBR without erasing my data from the server like my Wordpress installs?
> 
> Personally, at this point I would just grab the /home and /etc folders, 
> and whatever folder the Wordpress files are in, and reinstall ubuntu and 
> Wordpress from scratch, then selectively copy over the few old settings 
> files and other files you need to get it working again.
> 
> The HDClone 5 manual talks about so many different options you need to 
> set, its a bit confusing.
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 11:03:41 +0100
> From: Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: Software updater no longer functional
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> On 20 January 2017 at 20:00, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Does you see any errors if you run, in a terminal,
>>> sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>>> 
>>> and do you still see the problem after running the upgrade?
>>> 
>> No and yes, in that order.
> 
> 
> Next steps:
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> sudo apt-get install -f
> 
> -- fixes any package errors
> 
> NOTE THEM DOWN if it doesn't work & tell us
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> sudo apt-get clean
> 
> -- empty the package cache
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> sudo apt-get autoremove -y
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> -- remove obsoleted packages & ones nothing else use
> 
> sudo touch /forcefsck
> sudo shutdown -r now
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> Force a full filesystem check and repair then reboot
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