switching from amd to p3

[Littlefield, Tyler]

The cables are ok. do I just move it around on the cable?
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Sutherland" <doug at proficio.ca>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 7:03 PM
Subject: Re: switching from amd to p3


> If you're getting disk boot failure then probably something 
> is not right with the physical connection, the IDE cable or
> possibly the BIOS needs to be tweaked to recognize the
> hard drive. If there is more than one drive in the system 
> make sure the one you are moving in is on the first IDE 
> port so it's drive A, also make sure there are no conflicts
> if you have two drives in there ie make sure one is set as
> master by jumper and the other is set as slave. 
> 
> I think you can get disk boot error even if there is no disk
> at all, so start by checking the physical connections and 
> jumpering of drives.
> 
> The other thing that sometimes happens when moving 
> drives around is that what was drive a becomes drive 
> c for example, in that case you will get a kernel panic 
> with message stating no root file system found. If this 
> happens, then the other procedure I mentioned will 
> work, booting from cdrom or floppy, loading the 
> kernel from removable storage with the boot param
> root= pointing to the proper location of root file system
> (follow that with noinitrd ro) and then once booted you
> can rebuild the kernel and update the bootloader.
> 
> What you are doing is definitely possible, I have done
> it many times, building an entire system on on PC then
> then moving the drive to a mobile system.
> 
>   -- Doug
> 
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