I have spent the last couple of weeks setting up my new Lenovo notebook the way I want it. I got a lot of help from this forum, so thank you all so very much. Now that I have it the way I want it, I made a copy of the HDD with dd to an identical HDD installed in a USB container. When it finished, I tried to boot from the USB drive with no success. I can live with that as long as I have a good backup, so I removed the internal drive from the notebook and installed the backup, just to be sure. When I boot I get:
doing fast boot
Creating device modes with udev
[ 4.141141] [drm:drm_pci_agp_init] *ERROR* Cannot initialize the agpgart module.
[ 4.141855] DRM: Fill_in_dev failed.
Welcome to emergency mode!
I installed the original HDD from the notebook in the external case and tried to boot from it. The notebook recognized it (it did not recognize the backup) and tried to boot but ended up in the same place. At this point I assume that if I install the original drive in the notebook, it will boot, but I won't really believe it until I do it. I also assume that if I had to, I could copy the backup to the original disk and it would probably work but I would prefer to just switch disks if it ever comes up. I would appreciate any help I can get. TIA
doing fast boot
Creating device modes with udev
[ 4.141141] [drm:drm_pci_agp_init] *ERROR* Cannot initialize the agpgart module.
[ 4.141855] DRM: Fill_in_dev failed.
Welcome to emergency mode!
I installed the original HDD from the notebook in the external case and tried to boot from it. The notebook recognized it (it did not recognize the backup) and tried to boot but ended up in the same place. At this point I assume that if I install the original drive in the notebook, it will boot, but I won't really believe it until I do it. I also assume that if I had to, I could copy the backup to the original disk and it would probably work but I would prefer to just switch disks if it ever comes up. I would appreciate any help I can get. TIA