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having trouble copying debian to a new hard drive.

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ppcthug
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having trouble copying debian to a new hard drive.

#1 Post by ppcthug »

I dug up an old 15gig hard drive for my linux computer a little while ago. somthing of an improvement over the old 3 gig drive I was using. I was going to make the old thing a duel boot with windows 98 so I could play some old games on it but I upgraded my gameing rig to xp wich took care of support for old games.
so I decided to just copy linux to the new drive. I found a guide on how to do this on the web and followed it almost to the letter untill one point.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html
I got to step 9 but I couldn't find lilo.conf on either hard drive. I figured that maybe I didn't install lilo and linux just booted up on its own since it wasn't a duel boot system before. so I tried shuting down the computer and replacing the primary hard drive with the 15 gig secondary master drive (the 15 gig drive was already set to master so the only jumper I had to move was on the cdrom).
the computer booted up but stoped after it said it failed to boot off of the cdrom. so apparantly steps 1-8 arn't enough, and since this guide assumes lilo is installed I'm not quite sure what to do next. any advice?

anon

#2 Post by anon »

Debian ( from sarge and on) uses grub as bootloader, grub-install might be what you're looking for. (the documentation you site is more than five years old).
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual ... 02dinstall
or else:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual ... ively.html

ppcthug
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#3 Post by ppcthug »

thanks for the help. the problem has been resolved.

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