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billw2 / rpi-clone

A shell script to clone a booted disk.
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My rPi SD Card that I attempted to Clone won't boot anymore #178

Closed ndehchef closed 3 months ago

ndehchef commented 4 months ago

I have an rPi 4 Revision : c03115 Serial : 10000000a414a5d1 Model : Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.5

I was running 64 bit bookworm I attempted to follow the instructions here: https://gist.github.com/avoidik/d8fc39a372db680090edd5322d60848f Got as far as step 3 where I ran just sudo rpi-clone -s I didn't continue because I wanted to sort some issues with my USB After I shutdown, I attempted to start up my rPi but it wouldn't boot anymore. Any help would be appreciate.. I have the SD card now plugged in on the USB port and I can see all my files are still there. I am running my rPi an another SD card that I had created. still bit bookworm.. just not with all my critical files on it.

framps commented 4 months ago

This repo is no longer maintained and therefore outdated. Just visit this repo which is maintained and has various updates and in particular an important update for bookworm :wink:

ndehchef commented 4 months ago

Thank you very much. I will. in the meantime, is there anything I can do to get my sd card to boot?

framps commented 4 months ago

Your clone doesn't boot because the PARTUUID in /boot/firmware/cmdline.txt was not updated because of a change in Bookworm. Either update the PARTUUID with vi or use my tiny synctool https://github.com/framps/raspberryTools/blob/master/syncUUIDs.sh. This tool checks for a mismatch and can update the incorrect PARTUUIDs.

framps commented 3 months ago

@ndehchef Forget my previous comment I just deleted. Everything is fine with syncUUIDs. I was puzzled because one leftover statement in the code.

ndehchef commented 3 months ago

Thanks.. But I didn't clone. Its my original SD that's not booting. I never went through with the cloning and stopped before running the actual clone command. The only command I ran after cloning the repo and doing the setup is sudo rpi-clone -s

framps commented 3 months ago

My fault. I thought you're talking about the clone.

I did a quick code check and as far as I can see rpi-clone-setup just updates /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts. But this should happen on a device mounted on /mnt/clone - not on the running OS :thinking: .

But the system should boot even with another hostname. Nevertheless I would check these two files and correct the hostname if it was changed.

Do you have a screen connected and see any messages during boot?

If you don't get it fixed I suggest to head over to another clone and maintained repository and create an issue there :wink:

ndehchef commented 3 months ago

I googled and found that something was messed up with the partitions and a script usb-boot help fix it. Sorry it has taken over a day to resolve all the issues. Thanks for your help. I will head over to the new repo and start again with the cloning.