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> On Jan 16, 2025, at 2:42 AM, Tom <wirelessduck@???> wrote:
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>>> On 14 Jan 2025, at 11:26, Curtis Maurand <curtis@???> wrote:
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>> Hello,
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>> I've been running a KVM host machine on an old AMD FX(tm)-8320 8 core processor with 32 GB of RAM on a SATA SSD and a xfs filesystem. It's running Daedalus and it's running fine and has been since Devuan Beowulf. The motherboard is either Gigabyte or MSI. The hardware is getting long in the tooth.
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>> I have ordered a supermicro motherboard and an epyc 16 core 32 thread processor, 64 GB of RAM and a 2TB NVME drive. There are also spinning drives in this machine.
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>> The current plan is to dd the SATA drive to the NVME drive.
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> I would suggest booting clonezilla on a usb stick to do the moving. It can handle rewriting partition tables if needed.
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>> What's the chance of this thing booting without re-installing Daedalus? It's not the end of the world if I have to install a fresh copy and import the virtual machines. I'm curious if things are plug and play enough to be successful on the first try. This is a project that will happen in the next few weeks to a month. AMD microcode is installed on all the machines including the kvm's.
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> Is this old computer running BIOS or UEFI? If it’s UEFI you would need to boot some sort of live environment on a USB stick to reinstall grub. Something like https://www.supergrubdisk.org/ would do it.
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I’ll bear that in mind. dd should also copy the boot sector and all the partitions. the current system is running bios. i don’t see much advantage to using uefi apart from disks greater than whatever bios limits are.