I'm running debian 8 as a home server and my sdh drive started to get smart messages about failing drive so I thought I would migrate to a newer drive (sda) so during this process I believe I messed up my boot, I still don't know for sure because I haven't dared rebooting the machine.
both sda and sdh partitioning is identical except the size of partition 3 but it all fitted on my newer drive (60G, the older one was a 12 year old mechanical 250G drive)
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sda 8:0 0 55.9G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 512M 0 part /boot/efi
├─sda2 8:2 0 244M 0 part /boot
└─sda3 8:3 0 55.2G 0 part
├─arkham--vg-root 254:0 0 46.6G 0 lvm /
└─arkham--vg-swap_1 254:1 0 7.9G 0 lvm [SWAP]
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Disk /dev/sdh: 232.9 GiB, 250059350016 bytes, 488397168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: B10783C8-6FF8-43FE-ABE2-C67F60995D07
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sdh1 2048 1050623 1048576 512M EFI System
/dev/sdh2 1050624 1550335 499712 244M Linux filesystem
/dev/sdh3 1550336 488396799 486846464 232.2G Linux LVM
Disk /dev/sda: 55.9 GiB, 60022480896 bytes, 117231408 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 13780D60-6C95-4C58-AD9B-F63E8E7DCFB0
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 1050623 1048576 512M EFI System
/dev/sda2 1050624 1550335 499712 244M Linux filesystem
/dev/sda3 1550336 117231374 115681039 55.2G Linux LVM
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core.img doesn't exist, trying to create it.
Installing for i386-pc platform.
Installation finished. No error reported.
dpkg: warning: version 'dummy-version' has bad syntax: version number does not start with digit
dpkg: warning: version 'dummy-version' has bad syntax: version number does not start with digit
dpkg: warning: version 'dummy-version' has bad syntax: version number does not start with digit
dpkg: warning: version 'dummy-version' has bad syntax: version number does not start with digit
Installing for i386-pc platform.
grub-install: warning: File system `ext2' doesn't support embedding.
grub-install: warning: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged..
Installation finished. No error reported.
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found background image: /usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-grub.png
done
GRUB Legacy has been removed, but its configuration files have been preserved,
since this script cannot determine if they contain valuable information. If
you would like to remove the configuration files as well, use the following
command:
rm -f /boot/grub/menu.lst*
AT this point I think I might have screwed up the boot all together. I still have the older data on on sdh1 and sdh2 (/boot/efi and /boot) I have a debian 9 live on and USB stick and GRML full 64 on an USB stick if that helps. There is no more space on sda unless I try to shrink sda3 (OS). The machine is still running but I feel confident that it won't boot as is.
Edit: I looked at the grub loaders command prompt and the guide. My system is on an LVM volume and it seems to be slightly different. I tried google a little bit but since I'm just a novice much of it is stuff I don't dare to touch