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Thanks for the suggestion. fsck turns up an endless list of errors to clear or fix.

I went ahead and did a clean install with manual partitions from Live CD 12.04.1. It didn't boot at first so I...

I believe grub-install was successful because I booted directly from the hard drive.

It stopped again on the startup screen unable to mount /home. I checked fstab from the prompt and the UUIDs...

I went ahead and re-restored / and home to the SSD. It seemed like they responded differently after the first time they ran. Then I got

% grub-install /dev/sda
/dev/sda does not have any...

12.04

The restored partition booted from Live CD and ran fine that first time, then with Grub Rescue. Could it be incompatible with grub itself?

Thanks, dino, but I can't do that because blkid doesn't see the / or home partitions, sda2 and sda4. file doesn't even see they should be ext3 filetypes.

Hi, avid learner here, please reply with each step. I apologize for the long-windedness. How can I get my new SSD to boot?

I used partimage from a live boot CD to copy / and /home partitions from...