Re: [PLUG] System won't boot after failed upgrade from Ubuntu 23.10 to 24.04

[Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

I don't have any idea. I assume you meant to ask the mailing list and
not me personally, so I've cc'd them.

Walt

On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 10:31:46AM -0400, Bill Patterson wrote:
> I have a theoretical question: if you mix solid state drives with regular hard drives in a RAID environment will the slow one slow down the faster one? 
> 
> Bill
> 
> On July 20, 2024 10:59:15 AM EDT, Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
> >On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 06:49:55AM -0400, Walt Mankowski via plug wrote:
> >> As for the backups, yes, I have them, but the reinstall won't be
> >> easy. For one thing, my case isn't easy to work on. For another, both
> >> the smallish SSD and the big HHD are both RAIDed. Even to expand /usr
> >> is going to be tricky, since I had a hard time getting that setup 6
> >> years ago and I don't remember now how I did it.
> >> 
> >> I suppose I could replace the old RAIDed SSDs with a single much
> >> bigger SSD, then either restore to that or do a fresh install of
> >> Ubuntu onto it.
> >> 
> >> Or I could spend a few $100 and get a brand new box, and restore to
> >> that instead.
> >
> >I ended up doing a combination of all of this. I spent about $400 on a
> >new box and did a fresh install of Ubuntu 24.04. I was able to restore
> >most of my data from my backups, but it turned out I wasn't backing up
> >a lot of the data that was on my big RAID 1 array. (I know, I know,
> >don't judge me.)
> >
> >So last week I pulled one of the drives from my old dead machine and
> >put it in a drive enclosure. It was a little tricky mounting it
> >because it had also been LVMed as well as RAIDed, but it wasn't as bad
> >as I feared and in about 10 minutes of Googling I had it mounted.
> >
> >I'm getting warnings about once a day that I'm running a degraded RAID
> >array, but aside from that it's working great. Thanks again to
> >everyone who offered help and encouragement.
> >
> >The computer I ended up getting is a Beelink mini-pc. It's really
> >tiny -- maybe the size of 2-3 slices of Wonder Bread -- but comes with
> >a bunch of ports and is quite peppy. My config with a 500 GB SSD and
> >32 GB of RAM came to under $400 with shipping.
> >
> >It ships with Win11 Pro but Ubuntu installed easily. There's a known
> >issue with the Wifi drivers, but it didn't affect me since I'm using
> >wired ethernet. (There's a workaround online.) I'm happy with it so
> >far and at that price point I'm thinking of buying another to have a
> >proper Win11 box for my ham radio adventures.
> >
> >Walt
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