[PLUG] FedoraCore3 - moving to a new machine

Jim Karlock Jkarlock at earthlink.net
Fri Jan 14 08:38:04 UTC 2005


At 12:26 PM 1/13/2005 , you wrote:
>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.
>>
>>Thanks
>>JK
>>
>Jim,
>
>My first thought is that the harddrive was a different IDE device on the 
>install machine than on the new machine. If you installed FC3 while the HD 
>was master on 2nd IDE channel(/dev/hdc) and then installed it as master on 
>1st IDE channel (/dev/hda) then the boot loader would try the wrong device.
>
>Keith

Thanks, both slots are pri master.

Thanks
JK


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