[NTLUG:Discuss] Crash recovery

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On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:17 AM, richard witt<imageek72 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Fred<fredstevens at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> One of my computers' mobo blew a couple days ago,
>> the one with all my important data, of course. I would
>> like to have the boot drive from that system boot up
>> on the other computer but I guess there is way
>> too much hardware difference. It was on a P4/2.4GHz
>> mobo, the other box is an Athlon something. When I try,
>> the boot process stops when it waits for the arrival of the
>> hdd drive (It's a long story, yes, I put the drive into the
>> IDE1, slave slot). Anyway, it doesn't boot in the AMD box.
>>
>> I can mount it as a second drive and the data seems to be
>> all there. I need to be able to not just access the data but to
>> run the programs. How do I do that? ... other than getting an
>> exact replacement mobo/cpu ....
>
> You need to make sure that this drive is in the same IDE slot that it
> was in the other motherboard. You have to make sure that your grub
> config is looking in the same place for the drive.
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As well as the grub directives (ie hd0,0)
Also make sure the root= and/or init=  kernel directives are correct
what used to be root=/dev/sda1 may now need to be root=/dev/hda1


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