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Re: cannot boot into Debian after transferring hard drive to another desktop computer

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Hi.

A couple of questions.

* Do you use EFI or MBR/BIOS mode?
* You have a SATA disk, right? Does your controller set to the AHCI mode?
Was it set to AHCI in the previous motherboard?


On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 6:13 PM kaye n <guikaye@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Friends!
>
> Desktop Computer One has a hard drive that is multiboot:  Windows 7,
> Debian, and another linux operating system which I will call linux-x.
>
> It seems that the MOTHERBOARD of Desktop Computer One has finally given
> out (wild guess only, as even a linux live USB can't function properly).  I
> took out the multiboot hard drive and put it in another desktop computer
> which I call Desktop Computer Two.
>
> Now I can boot into linux-x just fine with Desktop Computer Two.  I'm
> using linux-x to type and send this email.  I have not tried the windows 7
> yet.
>
> However I cannot boot into Debian (I believe it is Debian 10).  I get this
> message:
>
> -----------------
> You are in emergency mode. After logging in, type "journalctl -xb" to view
> system logs, "systemctl reboot" to reboot, "systemctl default" or "exit"
> to boot into default mode.
>
> Cannot open access to console, the root account is locked.
> See sulogin(8) man page for more details.
>
> Press Enter to continue.
> -------------------
>
> If I press enter, I reach the Debian logo with the circling animation but
> after a while I get the above message again.
>
> If it matters, the UUID of both / and /home partitions of the Debian
> system remain the same; I compared the info provided by Gparted and the
> /etc/fstab in the Debian system.
>
> Thank you for your time.
> kaye
>
>

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