jeremy jozwik wrote at 2010-03-28 22:05 -0500: > On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 7:57 PM, green <greenfreedom10@gmail.com> wrote: > > Sjoerd mentioned using chroot; are you? Hmm, maybe you need to bind mount > > proc, sys, and dev also... > > i did try a chroot into the external drive per someone else instructions. > > > "Check your device.map" means look at /boot/grub/device.map. It should look > > something like this: > > (hd0) /dev/sda > > yes, it is the same on the smaller drive. basically everything was set > as it was on the previous drive. > > > Perhaps if your new drive is connected externally you should change that to > > sdb, run grub-install, and then change it back... I really am not sure about > > that. Did you try with /dev/sdb? > > grub is the bootloader, and runs soon after the BIOS; without it installed your > > system will not boot. > > but if it were installed on the copy from drive, shouldn't it then > also be installed on the copy to drive? all the config files were > there. Grub is a bootloader and is installed on the MBR of the hard drive. This is not included when you duplicate partitions. The config files etcetera that you mention are /used/ by grub. > > Also, your laptop might not support booting from USB and booting likely will > > not work through the adapter interface anyway. Of course you might have > > installed the disk in the laptop, in which case the previous paragraph applies. > > oddly enough it does. i was poking around in the BIOS this morning and > the usb is indeed a boot option. not what i wanted, but it is there. Are you saying that you booted from a drive that was connected externally via a USB/PATA or USB/SATA adapter? > i have successfully gotten the new larger drive to boot and load up my > old debian configurations. > since i could not get grub-install to work, even with chrooting in, i > ended up installing minimal debian on the empty larger drive > [installed in the system]. > after setting the partitions there and having the installer setup grub > i shut the system down and swaped out the drives. > with the larger drive as external i cp -arv all the folders except > /proc onto the larger externally connected drive. I think that means you were successful; good.
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