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 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
