Hello, I have an older laptop that has been working rather well, until the hard drive started making horrible noises that is. So I backed up the hard drive and was going to replace it with something much newer. I only found drives way bigger and more expensive then I actually need in this little laptop.
After thinking about it, the hard drive is the loudest and warmest part of the laptop. So why not replace it with a Compact Flash card? So I did. I bought a CF-IDE adapter [1] and a CF card [2]. I found several places online that mentioned that these products work together well and are able to be used at the boot device. I switched out the drives and the BIOS saw the larger hard drive (Yes 8GB is larger; I don't need much in this laptop:-). I proceeded to install Etch (floppy net-install). It was as smooth of an install as I have ever done. Rebooted after install and "no bootable device found". Huh. I booted off of my super-grub-boot-disc floppy; it found the hard drive and the install. Once booted, the laptop ran great. It is dead silent, it is much snappier, lighter, and cooler. Love the improvement. I regenerated grub and saw no error. It saw the partition and everything with no errors standing out to me. So I rebooted. Same thing; "no bootable device found". Booting off of the grub floppy again got me back into the install. So I dist-upgraded to Lenny. I thought maybe I hit a bug or something and the newer grub would fix it. Nope. I thought maybe it didn't like the fact that I have a single 8GB ext2 / partition. Maybe I need a ~256MB /boot partition like some of the computers back-in-the-day needed? However, the old install was only a single 6GB ext3 / partition; there was no separate /boot partition on it. So now I am a bit confused. I am not sure what I am doing wrong. Can any one advice me on what to try next? Should I try to reinstall with a /boot partition and a / partition? Is there something I need to do for the CF card? [1] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812186050 [2] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820208340 Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! ~Stack~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
