[kwlug-disc] Odd situation when booting from live image

[Chris Irwin]

On Tue, Aug 05, 2025 at 05:28:42PM -0400, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> I got a used, new to me, Lenovo laptop, and was copying the
> old laptop's disk to the new one by booting each from a live Xubuntu
> image, then copying over Ethernet, using nc and dd.

I've always been partial to putting my old storage in a USB enclosure, then using live media and ddrescue to copy it to the new system (and fstrim after booting into the system).

I installed Fedora in 2017, and have used this method to migrate it across a few laptops since then.

On Tue, Aug 5, 2025, at 23:35, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
> The Magic SysRq keys should work?
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key

Some distributions (Fedora and RHEL at least, unsure about Ubuntu) disable sysrq at boot time. You need to change a config to have it enabled.

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