Porch Enclosure

I took the the hard drive out of a defunct laptop that had freespire on it and put it in an external usb enclosure. When I go to the boot setup screen from the BIOS I can boot up from the hd but because it was installed on different hardware it stalls. I mean I can make it to the freespire load screen briefly. I need reinstall it on this desktops hardware.

I know partitioning is the recommended option but I would still like to know.

Freespire currently uses Grub as it’s boot loader.

Thus you will need to manually alter the parameters
contained in Grub’s configuration file, menu.lst,
usually found in the /boot/grub/ directory. These
parameters are not set automatically, so GRUB is still
looking for your old drive root, and the old path to the
linux kernel. This is why the system hangs. USB
devices usually end up being mounted with serial style
names, i.e. /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, etc, so that is what
you will need to change to in menu.lst.

Assuming you can boot from a USB device with your
mainboard, you could also try re-installing GRUB to
that same USB device. To do that you will need a
workable linux system, so try a ‘live CD’ distro, with
that USB drive attached, in order to give yourself access to the files you need to change, and to the
GRUB bootloader program itself.

Link given below, is an example install to USB device
of Knoppix. May act as a guide to help you.

Good luck!

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