Kali does not boot - Firmware mess-up after an upgrade - after a harddisk migration.
by Atimen from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6JTZF)
Hi all,
So I've been happily using my linux distro for one year. I've used kali in the past about 20 years ago, and because I felt comfortable with it I completely switched to that as my main OS that I use daily. And I've been on it for 1 year.
First 8-9 months I've used it on an external SSD drive. Just for a test ride to figure out all it's capabilities and all I can do to not look back to my old os. It went well so I decided to buy an m.2 drive and I used clonezilla to migrate the disk from my SSD to m.2
That's when I messed up the first time. I cloned the entire disk rather than only cloning the user files and the system. I cloned EFI and Swap as well somehow :D.
Then I found a solution to be able to boot that was involving changing the UUID's of partitions on the bootloader. So I did that. And it worked. I logged in my full fledged os. Which worked a couple of months more.
I'm using the Grub Bootloader just because I still have a windows hdd in my setup that I use to connect to my company for work.
Then one day I just sudo apt upgrade. Somehow the UUID's got messed up again. I tried the same trick but it didn't work. First it complained about the UUID's then when I solved it it said that my firmware is bad. Then I've tried the following.
*I've tried to restore the broken firmware by downloading and replacing the firmware that it's complaining, but each time it want's me to correct a new file in the firmware.
*I've tried to update upgrade, didn't work.
*I've tried to update the firmware forcefully however it didn't work either.
*I've tried to format the hdd completely and reinstall from scratch it didn't work.
*I've tried to format the hdd by completely clean it with clean all with diskpart in windows. didn't work
*I've changed kali installer versions didn't work.
*I've also tried to install Debian, which worked perfectly. however I couldn't install nvidia drivers on it again because of the messed up firmware.
So my question is...
Why is the firmware cannot reset with a format? Where does it exactly live? And how do I purge it and fix my hdd to be able to accomodate Kali linux once again?
Sorry for the huge backstory, I just wanted to tell how I got to this stage, that might give some people where and how I might have screwed up.
Thank you!
So I've been happily using my linux distro for one year. I've used kali in the past about 20 years ago, and because I felt comfortable with it I completely switched to that as my main OS that I use daily. And I've been on it for 1 year.
First 8-9 months I've used it on an external SSD drive. Just for a test ride to figure out all it's capabilities and all I can do to not look back to my old os. It went well so I decided to buy an m.2 drive and I used clonezilla to migrate the disk from my SSD to m.2
That's when I messed up the first time. I cloned the entire disk rather than only cloning the user files and the system. I cloned EFI and Swap as well somehow :D.
Then I found a solution to be able to boot that was involving changing the UUID's of partitions on the bootloader. So I did that. And it worked. I logged in my full fledged os. Which worked a couple of months more.
I'm using the Grub Bootloader just because I still have a windows hdd in my setup that I use to connect to my company for work.
Then one day I just sudo apt upgrade. Somehow the UUID's got messed up again. I tried the same trick but it didn't work. First it complained about the UUID's then when I solved it it said that my firmware is bad. Then I've tried the following.
*I've tried to restore the broken firmware by downloading and replacing the firmware that it's complaining, but each time it want's me to correct a new file in the firmware.
*I've tried to update upgrade, didn't work.
*I've tried to update the firmware forcefully however it didn't work either.
*I've tried to format the hdd completely and reinstall from scratch it didn't work.
*I've tried to format the hdd by completely clean it with clean all with diskpart in windows. didn't work
*I've changed kali installer versions didn't work.
*I've also tried to install Debian, which worked perfectly. however I couldn't install nvidia drivers on it again because of the messed up firmware.
So my question is...
Why is the firmware cannot reset with a format? Where does it exactly live? And how do I purge it and fix my hdd to be able to accomodate Kali linux once again?
Sorry for the huge backstory, I just wanted to tell how I got to this stage, that might give some people where and how I might have screwed up.
Thank you!