centos 4 installed on P4 won't boot on P3

[admin at homemachine.net (Tom)]

Karanbir Singh wrote:
> Tom wrote:
> 
>> I installed centos 4 on a P4, configured it (and it booted fine here) 
>> then sent it to the DC to be put in a P3 but it won't boot, displays 
>> GRUB and halts.
>>
>> The DC guys tried grub-install in rescue mode but still the same.
> 
> 
> did they check the drive lables ?
> 
> is /boot/grub/grub.conf configured to point at reality ? or is it 
> looking at non-existant stuff ...
> 
not quite sure what you mean on both those questions, grub.conf and 
fstab are correct, it was a standard install which worked fine on the P4 
but not at all on the P3.