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Re: [LUG] no job control?

 

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:34:16 +0000
Neil Williams wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 02:06 +0000, Simon Robert wrote:
> > After checking the harddrive is OK, by pluging it in to No. 2 I
> > have purchased a "barebones" PC form Novatech. Basicaly this is the
> > works with no harddrive or DVD burner.
> > 
> > I'm pretty sure I've plugged it in OK. The DVD drive works and when
> > I boot it I get the boot screen for PClinuxOS. It's after that it
> > all goes pear shaped.
> 
> Umm, is this a harddrive pre-configured on a different machine and now
> inserted into a machine with a different motherboard etc?
> 
> Various configuration settings are hardware-specific not in terms of
> architecture but in terms of the actual chipsets used on the board.
> Packages installed and configured for one motherboard are unlikely to
> work with a completely different board.
> 
> Reinstall.

Would it not be possible to boot from a 'rescue medium',
chroot/pivotroot to the 'old' system and reconfigure?

Grant.

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