SSD Hot-Swap on hardware upgrade

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Hello,

I will first mention that I use OpenSUSE 13.2 KDE with ext4 format, on 128GB samsung SSD and a 120GB SSD for Windows.

last year about this time, I fell off my bicycle and destroyed a Lenovo T410s, my supervisor replaced it with a T420 for me, and since it required different drivers, the salvaged SSD from T410 was not good-to-go from the hot-swap. It was glitchy, so I fresh-installed, and customized it the way it was step-by-step. It’s a week-ish long process I hate repeating.

This year, while I’m using the T420, I decided to get another T420, in case the laptop fails and I need to move everything over. Well, apparently this year, everything in life is forcing my hand to test my back-ups. My main T420 is a goner. My backup/secondary T420 is now working at 100% of before.

Now, what’s worth mentioning is that the secondary T420 has a dedicated Graphics card+ integrated, while the previous one only has the integrated graphics. Everything seems to be in working order, but I wish to activate the dedicated graphics card? Is there any specific method to this? It’s NVIDIA NVS 4200M Optimus Graphics 1GB

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Use bumbelbee

https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_Bumblebee

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And how is your question related to “SSD Hot-Swap” that you put in subject?

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Thank you,

I guess it’s my terminology/ way to describe taking one ssd out, and using it another computer immediately. I’m finding that my Windows 7 fails to hot-swap, while OpenSUSE has no problem.

I am also expecting other potential issues that may develop from the hot-swap, and I wish to make an archive/discussion thread about it.

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It might’ve happened somewhere along the lines of update or the install but two unrelated questions, I am dealing with this:

SJL@Gyro:~>  systemctl status systemd-modules-load.servicesystemd-modules-load.service - Load Kernel Modules
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-modules-load.service; static)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2016-08-19 22:13:15 EDT; 1min 2s ago
     Docs: man:systemd-modules-load.service(8)
           man:modules-load.d(5)
  Process: 505 ExecStart=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-modules-load (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 505 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

on boot nowdays.

Also, is Packman for 13.2 KDE down temporally?