Hi everyone,

I have a finely tuned Fedora 40 image that I cloned using Clonezilla (see: https://sh.itjust.works/post/25762756)

I wanted to deploy it on my old Acer Aspire 5737z but it won’t boot. It’s just displaying a — on a black screen for hours.

I’m not so knowledgeable but I guess it means I would have to reinstall the GRUB or whatever.

I’ve booted into my Fedora Live USB and tried the lsblk command people were talking about on the web (I don’t understand the terminal). Here’s the result.

I think the SDA disk is the one I would like to boot from.

Can anyone help me understand what I have to do 😇🙏

  • NateEnglish
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    3 months ago

    It appears that once-upon-a-time, fedora’s BTRFS would create separate subvolumes for /home, /boot, and /. Looking at this list, I don’t think that the boot subvolume is where all of the boot files are, just the grub2 configs. I’m assuming your kernel and initramfs are stored in /mnt/root/boot. Is there an efi folder in /mnt/root/boot? It’s possible that the original install on your surface go 1 wasn’t installed UEFI, and as such the folder doesn’t exist (or, it’s there but in caps)

    If you could send a screenshot of ll /mnt/root/boot too that’d be great

    For context, my /boot has the grub2 folder that exists in your boot subvolume, as well everything else needed for boot

    if your system wasn’t installed UEFI, you’re likely missing the efi folder. If this is the case, nbd, we can generate it