Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
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.
Yeah, i figured it should. :)
Well, not much, i dont get the expected grub menu, and not errormessage like "operating system not found". When i install grub, the disk is located in /dev/sdc(mounted on the usbide), and when i put it in the laptop its probably /dev/hda, i have taken this into account in the menu.lst file, but not sure if it applies somewhere else to. And when installing grub, it makes some noises, so its "probably" installed on the right disk, but I cant verify this in any way that I know of.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?
Any hints? Thanks, Eric