MaccyDG
May 13th, 2018, 01:42 PM
Hello,
I'd be grateful for any help on an issue I'm having.
In Brief
I use Ubuntu 16.04 64 bit on a 5,400 rpm HD and am trying to upgrade it to a solid state device. I have cloned the disk, which appears to have worked, but the new SSD won't boot.
More Info
I've had a look at the sticky relating to the problem I'm having, but as the problem doesn't occur on the original disk that the clone was made from, I'm not sure what route to go down from here. I'm quite au fait with hardware stuff, but not that knowledgeable about the software side of things, so please don't assume too much knowledge! Ideally I want to keep my clone and not format/reinstall the OS afresh, as I have an old Win XP partition on there that I boot into once in a blue moon.
I can sometimes reach the Grub menu and sometimes not (seems quite random as to whether I do or not). When I do reach it, selecting my Ubuntu 16.04 (or Win XP) installation results in a black screen.
System: Acer Aspire 5100, 2x 2 GHz AMD Turion 64 bit, 4 GB RAM, RS482M [Mobility Radeon Xpress 200], 120 GB Samsung mSATA solid state with mSATA to IDE bridge controller.
GParted shows the same partitions on the cloned drive as on the original, and that they have the same amount of data written to them. So whilst it's possible that the cloning went wrong, it's probably not where I want to start?
Separately, I have made a bootable USB of Ubuntu 16.04. When this is inserted either with no HD/SSD present, or with only the original HD present, it boots. When I try to boot it when the new mSATA drive is present, it shows a black screen, same as booting off the mSATA device. This seems odd to me, and might be key to solving the issue. In all cases, the USB key is at the top of the boot list. When I boot from the USB key, I get a message telling me that it's using generic retpoline because LFENCE hasn't been serialised, which I don't see when booting from the original drive.
Things I have Tried
Reinstalling GRUB on the new disk
Using the boot option "--verbose text" in GRUB (it shows a load of text telling me what it's doing, then the screen turns blank again, as before)
Using boot option "radeon.modeset=0" (it says "[drm:radeon_init[radeon]] *ERROR* No UMS support in radeon module"
Just to be really explicit, the original hard drive that this one was cloned from works perfectly.
Any help appreciated!
Cheers,
Liam
I'd be grateful for any help on an issue I'm having.
In Brief
I use Ubuntu 16.04 64 bit on a 5,400 rpm HD and am trying to upgrade it to a solid state device. I have cloned the disk, which appears to have worked, but the new SSD won't boot.
More Info
I've had a look at the sticky relating to the problem I'm having, but as the problem doesn't occur on the original disk that the clone was made from, I'm not sure what route to go down from here. I'm quite au fait with hardware stuff, but not that knowledgeable about the software side of things, so please don't assume too much knowledge! Ideally I want to keep my clone and not format/reinstall the OS afresh, as I have an old Win XP partition on there that I boot into once in a blue moon.
I can sometimes reach the Grub menu and sometimes not (seems quite random as to whether I do or not). When I do reach it, selecting my Ubuntu 16.04 (or Win XP) installation results in a black screen.
System: Acer Aspire 5100, 2x 2 GHz AMD Turion 64 bit, 4 GB RAM, RS482M [Mobility Radeon Xpress 200], 120 GB Samsung mSATA solid state with mSATA to IDE bridge controller.
GParted shows the same partitions on the cloned drive as on the original, and that they have the same amount of data written to them. So whilst it's possible that the cloning went wrong, it's probably not where I want to start?
Separately, I have made a bootable USB of Ubuntu 16.04. When this is inserted either with no HD/SSD present, or with only the original HD present, it boots. When I try to boot it when the new mSATA drive is present, it shows a black screen, same as booting off the mSATA device. This seems odd to me, and might be key to solving the issue. In all cases, the USB key is at the top of the boot list. When I boot from the USB key, I get a message telling me that it's using generic retpoline because LFENCE hasn't been serialised, which I don't see when booting from the original drive.
Things I have Tried
Reinstalling GRUB on the new disk
Using the boot option "--verbose text" in GRUB (it shows a load of text telling me what it's doing, then the screen turns blank again, as before)
Using boot option "radeon.modeset=0" (it says "[drm:radeon_init[radeon]] *ERROR* No UMS support in radeon module"
Just to be really explicit, the original hard drive that this one was cloned from works perfectly.
Any help appreciated!
Cheers,
Liam