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Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration

From <tomas@tuxteam.de>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration
Date 2017-02-23 11:30 +0100
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On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 07:53:45AM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 04:35:16PM +0100, Lucio Crusca wrote:
> > Il 22/02/2017 15:39, Eero Volotinen ha scritto:
> > >Try using clonezilla: http://clonezilla.org/
> > 
> > I can try, but I'd prefer understanding what I'm doing wrong, if possible.
> > 
> > 
> I am not sure I can explain why this would be necessary (theoretically, 
> it wouldn't) but you might want to try manually recreating the partition 
> structure on the SSD and then using dd (or just cp actually) to copy 
> each partition.

In the OP's context this doesn't make much sense. From the OP's mail

  dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb [other params elided]

That would copy boot sector, partition table and everything. If

 (a) the one (or the other) disk isn't broken
 (b) no one else is concurrently writing to the copied disk

everything should work. And from the thread up to now, I gather that
there's at least good evidence against (b).

There's nothing magical about the boot sector or partition table, it's
just data which happens to be located (typically, these days) "before"
the partitions proper. Unless...

I have some dim memories of some helpful firmware (was it disk? was it
BIOS? Didn't I say "dim"?) "protecting" the user of rogue software
writing to the boot sector. This was, AFAIR, the heyday of boot sector
viruses and hopefully long gone.

But hard/firmware vendors are known to do strange things: go check
your BIOS whether some funny RAID thingie is enabled.

Regards
- -- tomás
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"Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration Lucio Crusca <lucio@sulweb.org> - 2017-02-22 09:30 +0100
  Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration Lucio Crusca <lucio@sulweb.org> - 2017-02-22 14:30 +0100
    Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen@iki.fi> - 2017-02-22 15:50 +0100
      Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration Lucio Crusca <lucio@sulweb.org> - 2017-02-22 16:40 +0100
        Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2017-02-23 00:00 +0100
          Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-02-23 11:30 +0100
            Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migrationy Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2017-02-23 12:20 +0100
  Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2017-02-22 17:50 +0100
    Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration Lucio Crusca <lucio@sulweb.org> - 2017-02-22 19:00 +0100
      Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2017-02-22 21:20 +0100
        Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration Lucio Crusca <lucio@sulweb.org> - 2017-02-22 21:50 +0100
          Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration Lucio Crusca <lucio@sulweb.org> - 2017-02-23 00:30 +0100
  Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2017-02-23 11:10 +0100
  Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2017-02-23 15:10 +0100
  Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2017-02-23 15:30 +0100
    Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-02-23 16:10 +0100
      Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2017-02-23 16:50 +0100
        Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-02-24 10:50 +0100
          Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-02-24 11:50 +0100
            Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-02-24 12:30 +0100
              Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-02-24 17:10 +0100
                Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration Lucio Crusca <lucio@sulweb.org> - 2017-02-25 10:20 +0100
                Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-02-25 10:30 +0100
                Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-02-25 10:40 +0100
                Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration Lucio Crusca <lucio@sulweb.org> - 2017-02-25 11:30 +0100
                Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-02-25 10:40 +0100
                Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-02-25 11:30 +0100
                Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-02-25 14:40 +0100
    Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2017-02-23 16:40 +0100

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