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From: "Littlefield, Tyler" <compgeek13@gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: help with hd problem.
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:34:12 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <002101c7b475$d5457220$6401a8c0@GRANDMA> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002701c7b47b$96feb340$ab00a8c0@tenstac>

You can also edit by hitting e, at grub prompt, and then editing grub.
But, It's already root hd(0, 0)
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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: Thursday, June 21, 2007 9:15 PM
Subject: Re: help with hd problem.


> Cody Hurst wrote:
> you cannot mix hd installs with other machines because when you install
> linux, it is compiled and molded to that particular system and no other
> systems I have the same issue when I do it. Do a clean install on the
> machine you want to run it on.
> 
> Say what? This is not true, I have done it dozens of times. I have in 
> fact set up machines as build machines for others. The only thing that
> is "molded" is the kernel. As said in recent thread, what you need is 
> a generic kernel, not pentium or amd specific. To be more clear, in 
> the kernel config, you want 386 processor:
> 
> Subarchitecture Type
> PC-compatible  (CONFIG_X86_PC)
> 
> Processor family 
> 386  (CONFIG_M386) 
> 
> A 386 kernel will boot on anything. You also want generic chipset
> stuff, not anything specific to the original hardware. The easiest way
> to achieve this is to get one of the already made generic kernels, 
> the ones that boot when you run an install. On slackware that is 
> called bare.i, it will boot on anything! Equivalents are available on 
> other distros. And repeating what I said before: if a kernel will 
> not boot on any system, boot with floppy or cd, load the kernel
> from that media but use the root= parameter to boot into the 
> root on the hard drive. This has never failed for me unless the
> drive is toast. You need to catch the boot: prompt and do 
> something like 
> 
> boot: bare.i root=/dev/hda1 noinitrd ro 
> 
> where bare.i is the name of your generic kernel. You should
> be able to find a generic kernel for debian. Once you have 
> booted from the CD or floppy, with the root= to your hard
> drive, you have a running system, build a kernel on the target
> and then update bootloader. It is definitely possible to move 
> drives from one machine to another. 
> 
>  -- Doug
> 
> 
> 
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Littlefield, Tyler
 ` Cody Hurst
   ` Littlefield, Tyler
   ` Doug Sutherland
     ` Littlefield, Tyler [this message]
       ` Gregory Nowak
         ` Littlefield, tyler
           ` Gregory Nowak
             ` Littlefield, tyler
         ` Re[2]: " Farhan
           ` Gregory Nowak
         ` Alex Snow
 ` Ralph W. Reid
   ` Littlefield, tyler

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