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

[Bob McClure Jr]

On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 09:49:01PM -0500, P. George wrote:
> >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.

I doubt it.  The Athlon is a super-set of the P*.  Anything that
worked on a Pentium should work on an Athlon.  Good choice, BTW.  Four
out of five of my machines are AMD machines.  More bang for the buck.

> >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.

Hey, I said I was grabbing straws. :-)  You're probably right.  Try
the re-install of grub, as I posted earlier, and failing that, try
"upgrading" from your CDs.

> >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

Good man.

Cheers,
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