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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Jerry,</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I'm clearly seeing the merit of your
approach by now. Next time, I think I'll do it that way.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Since I'm so deep into this (spent
way too much time already), I'd like to complete the process.
I've learned about gparted (how to use it successfully) and now
hopefully grub. Found the ppa for grub-customizer and installed
it.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I see that grub was set up to have 0
seconds delay, so that it was not possible to intervene. So it
seems that the menu should both be made visible and the timeout
set to 10 or more seconds, at least for now. Does that make
sense?</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Grub customizer seems to be referring
to the active disk (which is not the one I want to change). How
do I get it to refer to the other disk? I will be doing a
physical disk change, and still am holding up hopes to not screw
up the known good disk.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Actually, sdc (it's actually changed,
but let's keep it consistent for the whole thread) isn't
mounted, and it seems I'm having issues mounting it correctly.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">From "man mount", I see that if the
device isn't in fstab, one does "mount /dev/sdc1 ..." (I'm not
sure what goes in ... )<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">However what is the dir that is
referred to, on the host machine or on sdc1? If I want full
access to sdc1, I would do</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><font size="+2"><tt>$ sudo mount -t
ext4 /dev/sdc1 / <font size="+1">(really sdb1 now, as seen
below)</font><br>
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<p>If I do this I get:</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><font size="+2"><tt>$ lsblk --fs</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>NAME FSTYPE LABEL
UUID MOUNTPOINT</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>sda
</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>├─sda1 ext4
6fb59d06-ec00-44f4-abcc-0da0f018be93 /</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>├─sda2
</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>└─sda5 swap
616eaa19-299e-479b-8dcf-dfc36593f63a [SWAP]</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>sdb
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</tt><tt>├─sdb1 ext4
6fb59d06-ec00-44f4-abcc-0da0f018be93 / </tt></font><---
this is the disk I attempted to mount<font size="+2"><tt><br>
</tt><tt>├─sdb2
</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>└─sdb5 swap
38689ed0-1d07-416d-bd53-8dfb22554b3f </tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>sdc
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</tt><tt>└─sdc1 ntfs
A2DA53E7DA53B5EF </tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>sr0 </tt></font>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">sdc and sdb have swapped. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Sorry for my confusion, but this
stuff isn't obvious to me. I seem to be missing a couple of
idea that tie this all together.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I cannot see the drive show up in
Files. All I see is sda (boot disk) and sdc (a data disk). <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">How do I mount this disk? It seems
like this is a necessary step, is it not?</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">If I can't mount it, then how can I
modify grub on it? Or for that matter do a new system install
on it.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">For now, I have not made any changes
in grub commander, and I have unmounted sdb1.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Wow, this has been messy so far, and
compounded by my lack of expertise in the area.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Bruce</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Sent from the very machine I'm trying
to fix...</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/2/18 11:50 AM, Jerry Feldman
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">Grub will still point to the old one.
<div dir="auto">The way I prefer to do it is to install a
fresh os onto the new drive and copy /home and possibly
/usr/local. But everyone has an individual setup. There is a
grub utility, Grub Customizer. I use this when I set up
triple boot. <br>
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