On Sun, 25 Apr 2021 at 17:04, Robert McBroom via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
New drive has the same msdos partition structure as the old. Legacy
system with boot partition on a separate drive and from the root
partition. System boots in mode 3 as specified but entering id and
password flashes some text and returns to the login. Edited the grub
entry to try a graphical boot but still get textmode.
What can be done to get access to f33?
Were any original directories encrypted? Can you boot in rescue mode?
If not, then you may have to arrange an alternate bootable drive (Live distro?).
Once you are booted in linux you can mount the root directory and do some
basic sanity checks for proper permissions, missing home directories, etc.
More details of the command used to create the tar archive might be useful.
You may be better off installing a fresh system and restoring just the home
directories and other changes outside the purview of distro (/opt, /usr/local, etc).
The drive was pulled out of the system to a usb external drive adapter on another system, mounted and entered from a terminal window.
in the mounted root of the partition the command used was
tar -czf /mnt/stor/system.gz *
to put the tarball on a NAS.
I can get to the F33 from an f31 install on the same computer, mounted on /mnt/sysimage and doing the binds to /dev, /proc, and /sys followed by
chroot gets me in to look at everything. Everything I look into
looks correct. Short of ideas