Upgrading system disk

[Christopher Pharo Glæserud <glaserud-debuser@orakel.ntnu.no>]

Hi.

I'm trying to upgrade my system disk on Debian unstable. What I've done
so far is to create partitions on the new disk and copy the old drive
with cp -a to the new partitions, run mkswap on hdc2, then I've mounted
the new partitions under /mnt/newdrive and changed my 
/mnt/newdrive/etc/lilo.conf as follows:

lba32
disk=/dev/hdc bios=0x80
boot=/dev/hdc
root=/dev/hda5 # hda here, as this is what the new drive will be
install=/mnt/newdisk/boot/boot-menu.b
map=/mnt/newdisk/boot/map
default=Linux

image=/mnt/newdisk/vmlinuz
        label=Linux
        read-only

and run /sbin/lilo -C /mnt/newdrive/etc/lilo.conf

What happens, is that I get the lilo prompt, and it displays the

Loading Linux .............. -line (and the red menu goes away)

but that's all. Any suggestions? (I don't have a CD-ROM in this machine
for the time being, so it's preferrable if I don't need to boot a rescue
disk.)

Is my lilo.conf wrong, or am I being naive regarding the file copy?
Partition table:

hdc1 => boot
hdc2 => swap
hdc5 => /
hdc6 => var
hdc7 => tmp
hdc8 => usr
hdc9 => home

-- 
regards,

Christopher Pharo Glæserud