On Tue, Feb 17, 2026 at 07:03:05PM -1000, Joel Roth via Dng wrote:
> > Trying to get linux to boot on my new-used T14. This model
> > has secure boot, came from Newegg with Windows installed.

You might need to disable secure boot, but you won't know until you
try to boot.

> But hey, since I've got my devuan installation fully(?)
> cloned, lets try booting while it's still in its T430 home.

Good idea.

>
> Short story. I could not get the cloned partition to boot! I
> upgraded my daedalus and ran grub-install, confused about
> which grub I had. Last try was definitely grub 2, okay, but
> the i386-pc flavor. Is that used for an amd64 system?

Yes.

>
> I tried various USB boot disks with no success.

You lost me. I thought you were booting a NVME disk.

>
> I did get as far as some failure around initrd
> load time. (I seem to recall that initrd files
> are portable, shouldn't be tied to a particular
> partitioning.)

As far as I know, yes.

>
> At this point, I found the boot-info-script utility.
> Output follows. I couldn't ask for more information,
> and it's all in one place!!
>
> I'm mainly posting to let other folks know about it. However
> I'm also groping for a useful procedure to follow getting
> the system to boot. I'm ready to give up trying on the T430,
> and just give it a go on the newer T14.

You can try that, but the advantage of first booting on the old
machine is you'll know your clone can be booted. If you still can't
boot on the new machine, it will be a question of is there a problem
with the clone, or something about the move to new hardware.

>
> My main innovation with this attempt is putting
> UUIDs in /etc/fstab. This should be foolproof, right?

Yes. The installer has already done this for a good while. You must be
cloning a quite old system if your /etc/fstab doesn't already have
uuid entries.

>
> Any suggestions, rants, etc. are welcome.
>

Nothing else I can think of. If grub can load the kernel, it should
also be able to load the initrd. Are you sure that's not an initramfs?
You may need to rebuild the initramfs, if you have an initramfs once
you move to the new machine. I don't recall what the case is with
initrd, if they need to be rebuilt too, or not.

Greg


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