On 17 Nov 2018, at 16:06, Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote: > Didn't use LVM? Too bad: that means there's a risk your new dirve and > partitions will get new identifiers so your fstab may need to be adjusted.
Ehm.. no.. I didn’t! > macOS doesn't touch EFI, AFAIK, so don't expect the Time Machine to > touch it either. I also believe Time Machine won’t backup the EFI partition. Therefore macOS Recovery should recreate a default EFI partition when recovering from the Time Machine backup. A default EFI partition that would only contain Apple’s data, and not the Grub2 loader I have at the moment in the current drive. Regarding you suggestion and the external reader, I need to check if I can find something cheap.
