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My Ubuntu installation does not boot when I remove a non relevant HDD (sda) from my system. Instead I am stuck in initramfs. However if it is connected it starts up just fine from sdb3.

  • sda unallocated - the hdd required to boot for whatever reason
  • sdb3 /
  • sdb5 swap
  • sdb6 home

It might be worth mentioning that I tried to clone sdb as is to sda using clonezilla live which failed. So sda has no partitions, but if I boot from sda grub rescue appears.

UUIDs of blkid -l match those of fstab

initramfs-tool/conf.d/resume points to sdb5

GRUB and initramfs were updated several times

fsck.ext4 /dev/sdb3 was run several times from live with no errors

Any help would be appreciated since this is my main driver and the problem doesn't seem too severe.

Zanna
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Ok i found the solution for my particular problem: Apparaently cloning the existing partitions to a new hdd via clonezilla beforehand somehow mashed up my kernel boot commands - which were for some reason set to drive letters instead to UUIDs in grub

Lesson learned: always check for every parameter involved.

Thank you Panther for your time and effort.

maxwhere
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