Doesn't boot from cloned disk

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the sd-card of my pihole died, and after some reading I learned that it would die again. So I got me an .m2 drive and external case, made the Pi boot from USB which seems to work, but in the boot process I get an error

ALERT! PARTUUID=d8b5753c-02 does not exist. Dropping to a shell

I guess it’s not a pihole specific problem, but more one of the cloning process, but my hope is that someone has an idea what happened here and how to fix it
I used AOMEI Partition assistant for the cloning

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Apparently you cloned the partitions from the dead SD card, but now, the new partitions on the new drive have different IDs and the old configuration can find a partition with ID d8b5753c-02 because this partition was on the dead SD card (it doesn't exist anymore).

Cloning a SD card partition into a SSD is not usually a simple process.

I suggest you to install a fresh OS and start again.

Exactly. This is an OS level issue.

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for anyone else facing the issue, here’s the solution

basically you need to edit the commandline.txt and fstab to the new partuid

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I use dd command to backup sd and restore, its only 1 command in Linux.
use sudo fidk -l to be sure where the sd after use “sudo dd if=(sd here) of=(the iso name .iso) && sync”” to restor same “sudo dd if=(the iso name .iso) of=(sd here) &&sync””
not hard in Linux

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