From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from beaver.sibername.com ([64.15.155.210]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HzdL7-0006Pp-00 for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:49:37 -0400 Received: from [24.226.68.228] (helo=tenstac) by beaver.sibername.com with smtp (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1HzdKc-0003Hn-J4 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:49:06 -0400 Message-ID: <007401c7b04f$923f85d0$ab00a8c0@tenstac> From: "Doug Sutherland" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <001e01c7b044$fd7fbbe0$6401a8c0@GRANDMA> Subject: Re: moving from amd to p3? Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:50:20 -0500 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 6.00.2800.1807 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1896 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - beaver.sibername.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - braille.uwo.ca X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - proficio.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: 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: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 18:49:38 -0000 If you are installing on amd system then moving to p3 system, and the kernel is crashing, then you need to find a way to boot a more generic kernel on the target system. If there is no CD the hopefully there is floppy drive. Prepare or find a generic kernel for the floppy disk, and when booting, from the boot prompt, you'll need to do something like: generic-kernel-name root=/dev/hda1 noinitrd Where generic-kernel-name is the name of the kernel on boot disk and root points to the root filesystem partition on the target machine. Basically you want to boot the kernel on the floppy but boot it using the root filesystem on the target hard drive. Once the system is booted, compile a new kernel on the p3 and update the bootloader accordingly to refer to the new kernel. -- Doug