On 8/7/26 5:34 PM, mick.crane wrote:
Booting from new clone of OS disk there is kernel panic and fsck says it's a bit messed up.
This is probably not what went wrong in your case, just a quick warning from a bad day I had ~8 yr. ago:
If it did correctly copy, both the source and destination disk now have identical uuid on the partitions. That can be fixed, I frequently don't bother fixing that, but with a caveat: Do NOT leave both connected to the same PC while you try to boot or mount one/both of them, after the copy is complete. It seems to cause confusion if the os is accessing the partitions by uuid.
I just make sure to use only one or the other at a time, which is usually not an inconvenience in my use case. (backups or upgrade to bigger SSD).
I tend to suspect your USB connection, I have one of those USB-to-SATA cords and have experienced exactly what you are describing. It helps to have a good quality cord, plugged into a good USB3 port directly on the motherboard, but a true SATA cable is generally more dependable.
