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Kevin Lucas wrote: > > > 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. > > -- > Regards: Kevin Lucas Post Master (Sub) Minions Shop & Tea Rooms Minions > Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE www.minionsbandb.co.uk > I'll give it a go. If I take the harddrive off PC 1 and plug it into PC 2, don't even unscrew anything leads out the side etc, it boots fine. So I have backed the whole disk. Problem with re-installing is that its from a live disk and the live disk doesn't get far enough to fall over. Will try above, thanks -- Simon Robert www.oldhouse-cottage.co.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html