[kwlug-disc] Cloning old PATA to SATA (old system)

[Charles M]

I have a scenario where I need to back up an old system with a failing
motherboard and old 32bit OS (ext3 file system) from a PATA to a SATA
drive.

I used clonezilla to clone the PATA drive to SATA and was successful
in cloning the drive. The issue I'm running into is trying to get the
SATA drive to boot in a new 64bit system.

With the SATA drive in the "new system" I tried running a live
Xubuntu, mounting the drive (there are only 2 partitions, / and swap,
/dev/sda1, /dev/sda2 (previous /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2) /dev/sda 1 /mnt
and then running chroot on /mnt.

The grub on this system doesn't have some of the grub tools I'm used
to grub-update, grub-mkconfig, only grub-install.

I tried grub-install /dev/sda1 but it doesn't like the mapping
(assuming it's still /dev/hda1 somewhere). I also tried with the
--root-directory= option, and a few other things to no avail.

Do I need to be actually in an old environment to do this, rather than
the Xubuntu 24.04 I'm using?  I was thinking chroot took care of that.

Thanks all...
-- 
Charles
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