Hi, Lucio Crusca wrote: > I lack the skills to understand how grub (or the BIOS firmware if grub hands > the task to it) could access SSD any different than HDD, given that, as far > as I know, the SATA protocol is just the same.
Even more, all disk-like storage devices are operated via SCSI commands independly of the bus technology. So with USB, SATA, PATA it's all the same. A block written to Logical Block Address X should be retrievable from that same address, however its data are stored pysically. > Then I copied partition contents over with cp run in a live systemrescuecd, > except /boot, /dev /proc and /sys. It more or less worked It's easy to guess that /boot is the main suspect in this list. But still no idea why a blockwise disk copy should not work when it comes to identifying a program file as ELF format. Somehow GRUB must get to the wrong file content. Have a nice day :) Thomas
