On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 10:41:05AM +1100, Kieren wrote: > Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 08:24:35AM +1100, Kieren wrote: > >> > >> I have followed the Hard-Disk-Upgrade to the best of my ability, > >> upgrading the 3.5 gb hard drive on my old pentium 100 (Dell) laptop to > >> a 30 gig hard drive. Everything went well, except that when I boot I > >> get the following: > > > Hi Kieren, > > I'm still a little confused. > > Did you do this: > > open laptop > > take out old hd > > attach old hd to desktop and make drive image > > attach new hd to desktop and copy drive image to new hd > > put new hd in laptop > > Nearly but not quite. I did the following: > > Pluged in new hdd via pcmcia drive. > Set up appropriate partitions on new drive > > Mounted new root partition on /flash (just a handy mount point I > happened to have lying around) and followed instructions in hard > disk upgrade, starting with: > > cd / && echo cp -a `/bin/ls -1Ab |egrep -v "^flash|^proc$|^home$"` /flash|sh > > Set up lilo as below (as far as I can see as per instructions), ran > lilo, as follows: > > /sbin/lilo -C /flash/etc/lilo.conf > > > Swapped old disk for new disk booted and got as far as > > Loading Linux ........................................ > > I can't boot from floppy or CD to fix lilo, but can boot from the old > disk and mount the new disk at the same time (which is what I'm doing > at the moment, but I want to recycle the old drive into a new old > laptop). > > Any help much appreciated. Hi Kieren, ok now I see. old hd INSIDE computer, new hd ATTACHED with a PCMCIA interface and mounted on /flash. Personally I use DD to copy but I know others like cp -a ;-) I think I'd try 'chroot' to see if the new partition will work. so try, chroot /flash if you get a 'prompt' it will mean that the transfer created a bootable system. after that, just type 'exit' to exit out of the chroot system. I think if you do 'chroot', you can then run 'lilo -v -b /dev/<pcmcia disk>' to put lilo on that disk. where /dev/<pcmcia disk> is /dev/hdb or that ever the pcmcia disk is. not 100% sure. Just a guess. -Kev
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