On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 12:36 +0100, rescondio wrote: > Hello, > > I use Fedora Core 3 at work on a secondary computer, and after a weeks, I decided to finally migrate to FC and remove WinXP from my main computer. > As I've my FC3 fully configured and working, I thought to simply move harddrive from one computer to another, as I've done several times in the past with other distros (that uses lilo) > However, this time has not been successfull, because when booting, the following comes up on screen and then just sits there: > > GRUB Loading stage2... > > Both computers have only one HD (the FC3 one) installed as /dev/hda, and one CD-ROM in /deb/hdc > > These are the contents of my grub.conf: > > # grub.conf generated by anaconda > # > # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file > # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that > # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. > # root (hd0,0) > # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 > # initrd /initrd-version.img > #boot=/dev/hda > default=0 > timeout=5 > splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > hiddenmenu > title Fedora Core (2.6.10-1.770_FC3) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.770_FC3 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet > initrd /initrd-2.6.10-1.770_FC3.img > title Fedora Core (2.6.10-1.766_FC3) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.766_FC3 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet > initrd /initrd-2.6.10-1.766_FC3.img > title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet > initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img > > > > And if I move HD again to old computer, it is working again. (I am writing this from it) > > I am a bit confused.. anyone has any clues ? > > Thank you very much in advance ! This might be a disk geometry issue. Check the BIOS hard drive settings on the new computer. Make sure they are the same as the one you took the disk from (LBA, etc.). Bob...
