Theoretical drive swapidge.
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From: jeremy jozwik on 28 Mar 2010 23:10 On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 7:57 PM, green <greenfreedom10(a)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. > 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. > 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. 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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/f8d5d4f31003282005t71b9b4b4y22799d1ddb187326(a)mail.gmail.com
From: green on 29 Mar 2010 21:30 jeremy jozwik wrote at 2010-03-28 22:05 -0500: > On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 7:57 PM, green <greenfreedom10(a)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.
From: jeremy jozwik on 30 Mar 2010 00:10
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:31 AM, green <greenfreedom10(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Are you saying that you booted from a drive that was connected externally via a > USB/PATA or USB/SATA adapter? no, but the option does exist. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/f8d5d4f31003292107g82cdcf2kbe78db340bf00fe(a)mail.gmail.com |