Re: diskload install?
On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 12:13:02AM +0200, Eric Persson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an old laptop which i've been trying to install debian onto, but
> since it neither has cd or floppy or the ability to boot from
> usbdevices, i figured i could take out the harddrive and put it onto a
> usb-ide adapter and load it through my other computer.
this should more or less work.
>
> It worked well until I get to the bootloaderpart i guess, I downloaded
> the baseparts and copied the files to the disk after making a ext3
> system, but when trying to put grub on it, it seems to work, but grub
> doesnt turn up when I remount it back into the laptop and tries to boot.
> Any hints on where to start searching or have anyone else did something
> similar?
to what partition did you install grub? what does the disk do when you
try to boot from it?
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
>
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