Re: [LUG] no job control?

[Kevin Lucas <kevin.lucas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

  

I have done several of these............    do you have SATA hard disks?
       If so go to the Bios and set boot perams to boot on the SATA first then DVD/CD
          Do the auto detect disks as normal (you just get CD/DVD)
       reboot twice and all is OK?!!!

             The bios on my Novotec machines does not boot SATA on default.

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Regards: Kevin Lucas Post Master (Sub) Minions Shop & Tea Rooms Minions Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE www.minionsbandb.co.uk

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