Transplanting Ubuntu 24.04.1 server to new hardware, best approach?

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Mon Jan 27 19:56:08 UTC 2025


On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 07:09:42PM +0000, Liam Proven wrote:
> Once you have done this, just `grub-install /dev/sda` should be enough.
> Worked for me, yesterday.

FWIW, if you're running on UEFI, then the installation device argument
is ignored, since it doesn't make sense on UEFI: grub-install always
copies GRUB into /boot/efi/ and adjusts NVRAM variables to point to it
in general.  So just `grub-install` as root is enough.

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]




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