Fedora stuck in loading boot screen
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So I have two drives connected in the same PC. One of them has Fedora in it and the other was empty. I followed these instructions step by step and everything worked fine.
After the cloning, I selected the "Shut Down" option, then disconected the source drive (the one that has Fedora in it), I left the drive where Fedora were cloned and I started my PC. The GRUB screen appears as normal, but after starting Fedora, the loading screen appears (where the Fedora logo in the bottom and the snipping circle loading icon are), but stays as that, loading forever.
Pressing ESC, it shows all the processes that were started, but the last one it seems that is in progress:
The "20min 36" is counting. Is more than obvious I guess.
I still have Fedora working fine in the source drive (from where I cloned to the drive where I'm having this issue), if its useful for something.
I'm not a Linux pro user, just an enjoyer, so this type of stuff confuses me too much. I only know the basics of the Linux environment so, if anyone can help me, please provide a step by step instructions if its possible. Thanks :)
So uh... I need the PC so I did a fresh install in the cloned drive...
It looks like the cloned OS is looking for a device with some specific disk ID?
To me it seems the disk ID is related to hardware.
Basically they won't be the same. The destination machine has its own disk ID and it is
definitely different from the source one.
Therefore in the future, before you clone it, I suggest you modify that so that it won't be
hardware related.
By doing this, the cloned OS should be able to boot in the destination machine.
Steven