[Glastonbury] Booting from external drive

[Andrew M.A. Cater]

On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 10:02:29PM +0100, Sean Miller wrote:
> Nope, the old hard drive is fine.
> 
> I can access the Linux and Windows partitions from Linux, and I can 
> access the Windows one from Windows... so they're all fine.
> 
> Just think that booting into Linux from the external might be a "neat 
> and tidy" way to get around my wife's fear of messing around with dual 
> booting on "our" laptop.
> 
So it just doesn't boot when connected in the external caddy:

Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst: boot using KNOPPIX and do it that way
> >
> No, it doesn't - as I said grub hangs.
> 
> I assume this must be because the boot sector refers to hardware 
> locations that have now been taken by the new hardware ??
> 
If the GRUB on the external caddy is now e.g. /dev/hdb, change
accordingly.

> > Nuke the old drive and reinstall Linux on it from scratch: Debian /
> > Kubuntu 5.10
> > 
> Please don't mention the "K" word...
>
Nothing wrong with Kubuntu - and I hear their new package management
front end ADEPT is quite nice. For myself, I obviously prefer Debian.

Given the option, I think I'd rather nuke the drive and start again in
any event.

Andy