Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Apr 1997 12:00:43 -0500 (CDT) | From | Mason Pokladnik <> | Subject | Re: can't swap disk to new machine |
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On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Paul Levin wrote:
> Howdy... > > I have slackware 2.0.13 running on a pentium 133MHz (call it > box A). I have tried to take the bootable hard disk and run it on a second > pentium (box B). On box A everything works well. On box > B, when I try to boot from a floppy (same kernel) all goes > well. When I try to boot box B from the hard drive, I find > the following: > 1) lilo is found and loaders start; > 2) kernel is loaded; > 3) kernel is started; > 4) when the kernel gets around to the point of fscking > the root file system before mounting, I get the following > oops message: box "A" wouldn't happen to be a Compaq box would it? I've had some serious problems trying to trade a disk out of a compaq to another type of computer because of some of the funky things they do to the firmware for disks in thier boxes.
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