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I have a large hdd that the bios does not recognise, however linux does. I currently boot using the SUSE install disk and select boot from hdd. I would like to use a small hdd to do the same thing as the install disk currently does. That is boot then pass everything over to the large hdd to boot. I know very little about linux so am going to need some pretty simple instructions.
I know there are a number of posts on similar topics but I don't know how to change them to my situation.
The hdd is 80GB (smallest I could get new) and the computer and bios is about 10 years old - the latest update does not have a fix. I have a 100MB hdd (about 13 years old) that I would like to boot off.
here's a howto that won't make you reinstall your distro:
make a backup of all the data in /boot
format the new hdd as whatever you want and mount it as /boot
copy the backup data to the new /boot
reinstall grub
and it should work (make sure grub is installed to the boot sector of the SMALL hdd)
I have managed to set this up, I ended up just putting the small drive in as hda and doing a repair install from the SUSE disks. The only problem I now have is that it did not make the hda partition active, so it will not boot directly still. Do you know how to set it active?
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