From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from nsfone.fone.net ([206.168.68.96]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HzjFY-0004lB-00 for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:08:16 -0400 Received: from mail2.fone.net (mail2.fone.net [206.168.68.165]) by nsfone.fone.net (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.7) with ESMTP id l5H17O0P009770 for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:07:25 -0600 (MDT) Received: from GRANDMA (ip-206-123-194-16.static.fasttrackcomm.net [206.123.194.16]) by mail2.fone.net (8.13.6+Sun/8.12.10) with SMTP id l5H17llY018219 for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:07:48 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <001801c7b07b$e8b2b3c0$6401a8c0@GRANDMA> From: "Littlefield, Tyler" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <000b01c7b068$f52e0630$ab00a8c0@tenstac><001201c7b071$3f80ff00$6401a8c0@GRANDMA> <004501c7b07b$46d700b0$ab00a8c0@tenstac> Subject: Re: switching from amd to p3 Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:07:36 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000749-2, 06/16/2007), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-PMX-Version: 5.3.1.294258, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.1.298604, Antispam-Data: 2007.6.16.175133 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 01:08:17 -0000 The cables are ok. do I just move it around on the cable? Thanks, Thanks, ~~TheCreator~~ [My programs don't have bugs; just randomly added features] msn: compgeek13@gmail.com aim: st8amnd2005 skype: st8amnd127 vertigo head coder web: tysdomain.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Sutherland" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup