I will probably do that in the future. I got this one on a cheap Black Friday special so isn't a bad machine but I don't wanna void the warrentee by taring into it to change out the drive. That's why I was messing about with this work-around. As an update to my problem, I found out today that grub is actually coming up when I attempt to boot it but it then claims it can't find the file systems it needs. So I may have to mess with different path options when building the grub image next time. The Arch Linux installer offered the grub build step and gave me the choice of using exact dev names like /dev/sdb, file system labels or the UUID or whatever it's called. I tried the file system label route. The more I think about that part of it however, I think that had more to do with the fstab and mount points. I'll definitely have to look further at this. I tried rerunning grub with chroot but it couldn't find the /dev items; I think I have to do something with devices before chrooting and making grub installs. I forget the command to do this. Asside from this booting issue, it will be neat to have a portable linux system I could conceivably take to any computer I want. On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:25:54AM -0700, JD Austin wrote: > Or better get.. get a newer and bigger drive for the laptop and put the > original on a shelf for such times :) > > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:24, Ed wrote: > > > Around the Holidays it amazes me how many drives need swapping! - just > > don't forget to image/ghost your Windows drive before putting your > > favorite distro(s) on it - if the laptop ever needs service, putting > > it back will save you a ton of grief. > > > > Happy Holiday Everyone > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss