moving hard drive to new machine : can't get past grub

[P. George]

> Hmm.  Well, at this point I'm grabbing at straws.  You're not working
> with a (much) different processor are you, say gone from an Athlon to
> a P4?  If it's a mere upgrade, shouldn't be a problem, say from P2 to
> P4.  If there's any question, you could boot from your distro disk and
> "upgrade" it.

i went from an intel-based setup to an amd-based setup.  maybe that's 
the problem.

> The only other thing I can think of is wierd devices.  I'd unplug
> anything non-essential for booting like USB devices.  Or, in that same
> vein, you could boot with a "nousb" option.  Do that the same way you
> booted to runlevel 3, before.

it's not making it that far.  i don't think i'm making it past the 
grub-linux handshake.


> Also, we prefer bottom posting here (post your response under what you
> are responding too).  Of course, we've already made quite a mess of
> it.

got it.  ;)

- philip