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mitcon wrote:I'm giving up on the old hardware

Have you tried the solutions suggested by HuangLao and/or Head_on_a_Stick?
If you cannot, write concretely what you cannot understand.

Reference:
http://www.google.com/#q=dell+inspirion+531+debian

How did you prepare the USB (thumb/thumbs) with the 8 iso files? Did you merely copy the 8 iso files into the USB? if yes, can you mount the 8 iso files onto somewhere? The following may be wrong. If so, please revise the following. Thanks in advance. :D To recognize the drives: lsblk If the USB is ...

2 commands: "realpath" and "readlink" may be useful. If you want to use in initramfs a command which is not in initramfs, you can extract the initramfs file and add the command to the extracted directory and regenerate an initramfs file from the directory. An example to include /...

Execute the following and post the results

To togo, Thanks for your nice report. :) Indeed, there are some reports that some bad BIOS does not try to boot from a media if there is no partition with "boot" flag in the media. In such cases, adding "boot" flag to a partition in the media solves the problem. But, the word &qu...

To cpicke1, grub_rescue> set prefix=(hd3,msdos1) The above line should be wrong. Is it a typo? The correct command maybe: grub_rescue> set prefix=(hd3,msdos1)/boot/grub or if (hd3,msdos1) is /boot partition, grub_rescue> set prefix=(hd3,msdos1)/grub grub_rescue> insmod /boot/grub/linux.mod Grub2 mod...

Maybe graphical issue. At grub2 prompt ("grub>" or "grub rescue>"), try adding GRUB_TERMINAL=console gfxpayload=ZZZxYYY and then boot You should replace the above "ZZZ" and "YYY" to proper values for your monitor. References OpenSuSE may boot correctly on Acer...

Download boot-repair-disk iso at https://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair-cd/home/Home/
Burn it onto an USB media and boot with it.
Insert the problematic USB media.
Generate Boot-Info URL as is written at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Info , and post the URL.

draxxry wrote:2. Debian 7.8 live CD don't see the disk, Debian 7.11 disk is accessible

Why not using Debian 8 live CD?

draxxry wrote:HW raid controller

I am not familiar with RAID and cannot help you. But I guess that the info (HW raid) will help answerers.

Disk array is fine - with livecd can access to files on it What livecd? What is used for the disk array? RAID? LVM? Encryption? Or none of them? What modules are used for accessing to files on it? Boot the livecd and access to files on it and execute lsmod and post the results between "[ code]...

refractasnapshot may help you. How much size is your pendrive? If it is large enough, how about installing debian onto a partition in your pendrive similarly as usual installation of debian onto a partition in an internal HDD? ADDED at Sat Dec 17 00:14:34 JST 2016; Try adding the nls_ascii module to...

I am not familiar with SSD. So, I may be wrong. https://www.dropbox.com/s/b54brzgo2q390kf/Boot-Info_2016-12-13__15h08.txt?dl=0 Device UUID TYPE LABEL /dev/loop0 squashfs /dev/nvme0n1p1 1E91-A28E vfat ESP /dev/nvme0n1p3 04CE1EE6CE1ED032 ntfs OS /dev/nvme0n1p4 1C1072091071EA62 ntfs WINRETOOLS /dev/nvm...

I posted at http://superuser.com/questions/1154866/ ... ision-5510

when i was gonna finish install it said "We detected a windows .... Woud you like to install GRUB on first hard disk" I pressed no and select my "/boot" folder. You should have selected the HDD (such as /dev/sda) instead of "/boot" PARTITION (such as /dev/sda6). when i...

Have you booted live debian installation iso file? Then, read http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=130799 How about trying Super Grub2 Disk? Super Grub2 Disk is available at http://www.supergrubdisk.org/super-grub2-disk/ Boot with Super Grub2 Disk. Try to search Debian. If it can search...

kill -9 PROCESS_ID `kill -9` should not be used except as a last resort, see http://porkmail.org/era/unix/award.html#uuk9letter & http://turnoff.us/geek/dont-sigkill/ Thank you for telling that sigkill ( "-9" option of "kill") is bad. :) Nevertheless, I used "kill -9&qu...

I assumed that the OP want to use only the new disk without the old disk.

I don't like the Mint Community, Mint is easily corrupted. Frankenmint they call it. Is it default Mint? Or did you modify Mint? If you mix repositories, you can easily get FrankenDebian. Refer https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian In Salix, I could get it to work with xrandr but we couldn't get ...

lists running processes. will kill (finish) all nautilus. will kill a process with "PROCESS_ID".

ADDED at Sun Dec 11 16:15:55 JST 2016;
Remove "-9" from the above.

The only one that will work with Dual monitors is Mint 17.3. If I were you, I would use Mint 17.3 or analyze how Mint 17.3 enables dual monitors (such as output of "xrandr" or "lspci" or X configuration files and kernel modules by "lsmod" and logs "dmesg" and...