On 24/12/2021 11.43, Dave Plater wrote:
On Fri, 24 Dec 2021, 10:21 Carlos E. R., <<>> wrote: On 24/12/2021 06.22, Dave Plater wrote: > Hi, I had to change over to a new hard drive,500G to 1T, I changed my > partitioning scheme slightly to include a separate home and opt > partition and merged two data partitions into one. I also changed to a > gpt partition table to remove the need for an extended partition
Ok...
> I got this Leap:15.3 system up and running fine except for a root ext4 > partition error that popped up when I had a power outage. This made me > remember how tolerant the xfs file system was to crashes so i decided > to copy the root partition contents to a backup and create an xfs root > partition.
Ok...
So you made a backup of the root partition. Do you still have that backup?
> Wrong move, I'd forgotten that grub2 and xfs don't like each other and > the system was unbootable. Ok backup root again and create an ext3 > boot partition before the root partition and perform the mount --bind > on sys proc and dev then chroot into root partition then use yast2 > bootloader on it.
This step is not clear.
Backup root again? Why, you already did a backup in the previous paragraph.
Then did what?
Sorry I'm having to write this from my phone, the tumbleweed rescue iso I'm using won't run Gmail in it's browser.
The reason for the steps I've taken is to try to avoid the home directory on the old root partition, the new drive has a separate home partition.
Having a separate /home is fine. But still I don't understand what you have done in the paragraph I mentioned, step by step. "Why", yes, but "what" you have done, no, you have not. And without that detailed list I can not know or guess why chroot does not work. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)