Re: motherboard change
Hi Bret, Thanks for reply. Now I understand -you keep it drive one. Ok I did use a GRUB bootdisk - on menu did what you suggest - it loads fine up to point - then kernel panic. Maybe there is some way to trick linux? Enjoy Johan ** - Original Message - From: Win Toe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 4:01 PM Subject: Re: motherboard change pass LILO option at boot time at lilo prompt For example, LILO boot: linux root=/dev/hd_X_y where linux is kernel name and /dev/hd_X_Y is partition name At 06:19 PM 7/18/03 -0500, you wrote: On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 12:02, Johan Scheepers wrote: May I enquire.. This swapping - was the drive position always drive one? yes If I swap on my machine drive two to drive one I get a kernel panic. Are you somehow tricking linux to accept this? you will need to boot from a floppy and tell your bootloader (grub or lilo) to look for the kernel on the different drive. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: motherboard change
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 02:58:55PM -0400, Vince Scimeca wrote: I have also pulled drives from one box and put them in others using RH 7.2 with no real issues. These were vastly different boxes with different boards, processors memory etc. For me, RH detected the changes in sound and video etc on bootup and asked me to accept the changes. I never had an issue doing this...maybe I was just lucky?! Nah, that's the way it should be. This isn't Windows... Same here, BTW. I've swapped drives between boxes quite often and never had an issue. With one single exception: I once swapped a drive from a Pentium machine to a 486 - and forgot that I had recompiled the kernel for Pentium. For obvious reasons, that didn't quite work... ;-) One thing to keep in mind, however, is that even with a stock kernel (which most people will use anyway) you will have to reconfigure a few bits and pieces. Things like video and sound come to mind, as well as network cards and USB, maybe even IDE and SCSI, depending on your setup. Personally, I usually disable kudzu, as it takes another few seconds during boot, so I either have to configure things manually or I run kudzu manually. Cheerio, Thomas -- == RH List Archive: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=redhat-listr=1w=2 == - Thomas Ribbrockhttp://www.ribbrock.org You have to live on the edge of reality - to make your dreams come true! -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: motherboard change
May I enquire.. This swapping - was the drive position always drive one? If I swap on my machine drive two to drive one I get a kernel panic. Are you somehow tricking linux to accept this? Enjoy Johan - Original Message - From: T. Ribbrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 8:43 AM Subject: Re: motherboard change On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 02:58:55PM -0400, Vince Scimeca wrote: I have also pulled drives from one box and put them in others using RH 7.2 with no real issues. These were vastly different boxes with different boards, processors memory etc. For me, RH detected the changes in sound and video etc on bootup and asked me to accept the changes. I never had an issue doing this...maybe I was just lucky?! Nah, that's the way it should be. This isn't Windows... Same here, BTW. I've swapped drives between boxes quite often and never had an issue. With one single exception: I once swapped a drive from a Pentium machine to a 486 - and forgot that I had recompiled the kernel for Pentium. For obvious reasons, that didn't quite work... ;-) One thing to keep in mind, however, is that even with a stock kernel (which most people will use anyway) you will have to reconfigure a few bits and pieces. Things like video and sound come to mind, as well as network cards and USB, maybe even IDE and SCSI, depending on your setup. Personally, I usually disable kudzu, as it takes another few seconds during boot, so I either have to configure things manually or I run kudzu manually. Cheerio, Thomas -- == RH List Archive: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=redhat-listr=1w=2 == -- --- Thomas Ribbrockhttp://www.ribbrock.org You have to live on the edge of reality - to make your dreams come true! -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: motherboard change
On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 12:02, Johan Scheepers wrote: May I enquire.. This swapping - was the drive position always drive one? yes If I swap on my machine drive two to drive one I get a kernel panic. Are you somehow tricking linux to accept this? you will need to boot from a floppy and tell your bootloader (grub or lilo) to look for the kernel on the different drive. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: motherboard change
On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 09:01, Win Toe wrote: pass LILO option at boot time at lilo prompt For example, LILO boot: linux root=/dev/hd_X_y where linux is kernel name and /dev/hd_X_Y is partition name yep. even better. Don't forget to fix lilo.conf and rerun lilo or you will have to continue doing the LILO prompt stuff. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
motherboard change
hi, i wish to change my motherboard. but one of my friends had to reinstall linux after changing his motherboard. i want to know whether that situation is normal? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RE: motherboard change
I'd have to say that's pretty much SOP in the days of PnP. Unless of course you replaced the old one with a new one that's identical to the old one. -Original Message- From: Sachintha Karunaratne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 2:31 PM To: redhat list Subject: motherboard change hi, i wish to change my motherboard. but one of my friends had to reinstall linux after changing his motherboard. i want to know whether that situation is normal? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: motherboard change
Hmmm I've never had that happen to me. Wierd. Usually an install will work on multiple computers. What were the symptoms of the problem? My guess is that there was probably a pretty easy fix but he didn't ask :) Jon On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Sachintha Karunaratne wrote: hi, i wish to change my motherboard. but one of my friends had to reinstall linux after changing his motherboard. i want to know whether that situation is normal? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: motherboard change
Pretty much a necessity in such a case. Maybe not if you used a mobo with same chip set? MRW http://www.osheaven.net Linux CDs and Stuff - Original Message - From: Sachintha Karunaratne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: redhat list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 2:30 PM Subject: motherboard change hi, i wish to change my motherboard. but one of my friends had to reinstall linux after changing his motherboard. i want to know whether that situation is normal? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: motherboard change
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 13:30, Sachintha Karunaratne wrote: hi, i wish to change my motherboard. but one of my friends had to reinstall linux after changing his motherboard. i want to know whether that situation is normal? caveatI have not done this with =8.0/caveat Unless you built a kernel and removed all but the stuff specific to your chipset I can;t imagine why this is necessary. I have pulled drives from one box and put it into another which is tantamount to changing everything that can be changed with now problems. There are likely to be issues of there are multiple nics as the order they are detected might change the interface name but I can't think of anything that would cause wholesale reinstall other than the windows If it has a problem reboot. If it still has a problem reinstall. mindset. I have never understood why windows always had so many problems loading new drivers for different hardware. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: motherboard change
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 14:52, Bret Hughes wrote: On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 13:30, Sachintha Karunaratne wrote: hi, i wish to change my motherboard. but one of my friends had to reinstall linux after changing his motherboard. i want to know whether that situation is normal? caveatI have not done this with =8.0/caveat Unless you built a kernel and removed all but the stuff specific to your chipset I can;t imagine why this is necessary. I have pulled drives from one box and put it into another which is tantamount to changing everything that can be changed with now problems. There are likely to be issues of there are multiple nics as the order they are detected might change the interface name but I can't think of anything that would cause wholesale reinstall other than the windows If it has a problem reboot. If it still has a problem reinstall. mindset. I have never understood why windows always had so many problems loading new drivers for different hardware. Bret I have also pulled drives from one box and put them in others using RH 7.2 with no real issues. These were vastly different boxes with different boards, processors memory etc. For me, RH detected the changes in sound and video etc on bootup and asked me to accept the changes. I never had an issue doing this...maybe I was just lucky?! Vince -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
