The cables are ok. do I just move it around on the cable? Thanks, Thanks, ~~TheCreator~~ [My programs don't have bugs; just randomly added features] msn: compgeek13 at gmail.com aim: st8amnd2005 skype: st8amnd127 vertigo head coder web: tysdomain.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Sutherland" <doug@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 7:03 PM Subject: Re: switching from amd to p3 > If you're getting disk boot failure then probably something > is not right with the physical connection, the IDE cable or > possibly the BIOS needs to be tweaked to recognize the > hard drive. If there is more than one drive in the system > make sure the one you are moving in is on the first IDE > port so it's drive A, also make sure there are no conflicts > if you have two drives in there ie make sure one is set as > master by jumper and the other is set as slave. > > I think you can get disk boot error even if there is no disk > at all, so start by checking the physical connections and > jumpering of drives. > > The other thing that sometimes happens when moving > drives around is that what was drive a becomes drive > c for example, in that case you will get a kernel panic > with message stating no root file system found. If this > happens, then the other procedure I mentioned will > work, booting from cdrom or floppy, loading the > kernel from removable storage with the boot param > root= pointing to the proper location of root file system > (follow that with noinitrd ro) and then once booted you > can rebuild the kernel and update the bootloader. > > What you are doing is definitely possible, I have done > it many times, building an entire system on on PC then > then moving the drive to a mobile system. > > -- Doug > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
