On 10/28/2014 05:57 PM, Central Scrutinizer wrote:

Or you could have just had all fielsystems referred by partition label rather than SSID, and you wouldn't have had to do anything to boot from the new disk dd'ed from the old disk.

If you read what I wrote you'd see that the issue wasn't the disk. As it happens the file systems are referred to by label and not SSID. The command line was and still is linux /vmlinuz-3.11.10-100.gafaa845-desktop root=/dev/mapper/vgmain-vROOT resume=/dev/disk/by-label/SWAP splash=silent quiet showopts The reason I was booting into "runlevel 3" was that I didn't want X to start. As I said:

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I knew ahead of time that X would not work at boot because of a different video chip on the mobo. So I wanted to boot without X11 coming up,

you should read what I wrote.

LOong, complicated, typo-prone names...for no good reason whatsoever.

Indeed. And you should read what I wrote:

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Why did I simply insert "3" and not some magic string for systemd saying "multi-user"? Cos I'm lazy.

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