Can't boot notebook from SSD

[Petter Adsen]

On 07/05/17 02:58, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 8:04 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 6 May 2017 at 16:34, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Does an SSD require the EFI partition where a hard drive does not?  Confusing.
>>
>> No, but you only need 1 of them, on the boot drive.
> 
> Perhaps I was unclear.  I only have either the SSD or the HDD
> installed when booting, not both

The hard disk for which you posted info was not set up to boot in UEFI
mode, so this should not matter.

> I tried a different approach.  I mounted the SSD while running from
> the HDD and rsync'd everything over except /dev, /proc and /sys.
> 
> Then I ran the usual recover procedure (mount the SSD to /mnt, bind
> /dev, /run, /proc and /sys to the corresponding /mnt directories,
> chroot'd and ran update-grub).

Did you also edit /etc/fstab? I assume your filesystems are mounted by
UUIDs, which would be different if you only rsync'ed the data.

Petter