[PLUG] FedoraCore3 - moving to a new machine

Terry Griffin griffint at pobox.com
Thu Jan 13 20:13:51 UTC 2005


On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 06:18:13AM -0800, Jim Karlock wrote:
> I installed FC3 on a hard drive in one machine and moved that hard drive to 
> another machine. It hangs on power up.
> 
> Is this normal?
> 
> Is there a way to tell it that it is on a new machine?
> 
> The "new machine" is currently runing FC1, so it should not be a hardware 
> issue.
> 

Possibly a processor mismatch between the old and new machine. A binary
kernel can be very particular about wanting to run on the processor for
which it was compiled.

Terry
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