Re: switching from amd to p3

["Littlefield, Tyler" <compgeek13@gmail.com>]

It's in the right way, and it's master...

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Sutherland" <doug@proficio.ca>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 9:03 PM
Subject: Re: switching from amd to p3


> Tyler said:
> The cables are ok. do I just move it around on the cable?
>
> The disk boot error is severe, and I would think that needs
> to be solved even if you want to do a network boot. It is
> hard to say without trying some things, but I would check
>
> Is the IDE cable inserted the right way up in the drive.
> Some drives will only let you insert it one way, others
> will let you do it upside down.
>
> Is the IDE cable inserted into the first IDE controller
> port on motherboard. Best way to check is in BIOS,
> you should see the drive as master.
>
> Is the power cable inserted in the drive.
>
> If more than one drive on same cable, one must be
> set as master, one as slave, done by jumpers using
> the label on drive as guide. As suggested before if
> there already is another drive, try removing it and
> boot with just the newly setup drive.
>
> If all the physical connections seem okay, the next
> thing I would do is boot from a CD or floppy and
> do what I said before, at the boot prompt enter
>
> kernel-name root=/dev/hda1 noinitrd ro
>
> where kernel-name is the name of kernel on the
> removable media, and the kernel is a "bare" one,
> not specific to hardware, ie its 386 and generic
> controllers. On slackware its called bare.i but
> there should be an equivalent on debian. And
> make sure the root= points to the right drive
> letter and number of the partition with the root
> file system.
>
> You could also try loading a generic kernel on
> the AMD, making sure it boots there, then
> moving the kernel over. You'll have to check
> the debian docs to find out which kernel to use.
> I haven't use debian in a while.
>
> > How hard are these floppies to get for deb?
>
>
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-i386/current//images/floppy/
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en
>
>   -- Doug
>
>
>
>
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>
> > 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" <doug@proficio.ca>
> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
> <speakup@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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