I have a test install on hdd and an another on ssd. I've decided that I will try to upgrade the test linux, but my old hdd is slow and there aren't too much free space on it, so I have to change to a bigger one.
I have nvidia card and I've always found that others had problems on simple kernel version change, so I was afraid bit.
The tasks I had:
1, copy old disk to a new one
2, make new one bootable and test that everything works as previously
3, reorganize computer hardware and replace disk (disk in bays, nvidia from slot2 to slot1)
4, update mga7 to latest
5, upgrade to mga8
1,
To copy the disk I've started ssd mga and installed gparted. I had copied all the partitions separately, so I could set resize too, but no boot record were copied. It did everything well,
2,
but new partitions got different ID-s than the original, so I had to repair/reinstall grub. MCC/system startup did everything well.
3,
I screwed some and everything went to its new place. But after boot network stopped working.
I knew that "nvidia card in slot1 cause" that but I hadn't inspected it till then. I thought maybe something about pcie-lanes, because slot1 uses 16x for vga. But I think I had enough.
The network card id changed from enp5s0 to enp6s0. Also in lspci I realize that bios moved from pci5 to pci6.
I've removed enp6s0 at MCC/network and re-added it and it started to work. I tried changed DHCP to the same static ip and it said that the enp5s0 is started with it. So this was the collision. I removed all two cards and set up enp6s0 and everything is good
4,
after one week test of new harddisk I updated mga7 to newest with white down-arrow in blue circle on tray. (GUI mgaapplet)
5,
I've rebooted and waited for red triangle with white exclamation mark.
- MGA Upgrade
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I choose start the upgrade and:
it started upgrading ~615 packages, but some minutes later I got the old unsolved screen:
- Unlock-session
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will it be solved in my life? why don't suspend/switch off the gui upgrade the screenlock and powersave?
so I unlocked session, and found that hdf5 packaged cannot be upgrade now but I could continue.
The upgrade restarted but now it started to upgrade ~2907 packages.
It stopped again on hdf5 and I could continue again, and it restarted with the remained ~400 packages without no more message.
It asked me a reboot.
And now it works well and step 5 lasted only 1.5~2h for me.
Ty