Jacques B. wrote:
What I did was update the copy from the F7DVD which gave me the original kernel that boots up. I have a lot of things to fix but the basic system is running. Yes the effort to try and fix initrd was a bag of worms you do not want to try. I got very upset because things were not as they said in the man pages.We are all in the dark Jacques. I have no way of telling what the new computer has in the way of ram (I have 2 gb of 400 MHz Buffalo Select stuff but there is no information on what the computer calls it. And I don't know what kind of Internet cards are in the mother board. I don't know what goes in the /etc/modprobe.conf file. It is all one great mystery. Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DII wasn't necessarily looking for detailed specs. First was my assumption correct in what you did (which I am under the impression at least part of my assumption was correct), that you cloned a drive in your old computer to put in a new computer? As for specs on the old and the new PC (again I'm pretty certain my assumption is correct here), I was just wondering how much RAM, the size and type of hard drive (i.e. IDE or SATA), and the CPU. I don't want to bury the above in too much text because it will get missed if I do and therefore not answered. So I will keep this brief. Cloning an install will work great if you are putting the new drive in the same box (or identically equipped boxes). If you are going to a new box then it could cause you some headaches (I know, you already learned it the hard way). Having said that I would have thought that providing that the new drive was at the same location (same IDE same SATA bus) and partitioned the same as the old drive (so that Grub would look at the right place for the Stage 2 boot loader) that it would have started the boot process and that kudzu would detect hardware changes. Anyone more knowledgeable on kudzu able to fill in the blanks on that one? Finally although admirable that you want to further your knowledge of Linux and F7 by taking the path less travelled (clone and trouble shoot vs new install and copy over /home), doing so without an adequate foundation of knowledge and experience is not wise. It is a recipe for problems. Some of your replies on the threads of the past week or so on your experiences in attempting this feat certainly supports that you probably do not have the necessary foundation and/or experience. In absence of that, those with that knowledge on the list can try and help you providing you possess other Linux skills/knowledge which will allow you to apply the advice given to you. But your frustrations with your no so pleasant experience with migrating F7 to a new system appears to be contaminating your attitude towards those trying to help you (which will be fewer and fewer people unless you change your ways). Therefore I suggest that you either take the advice to do a new install and copy over your data, or take the time to follow the advice given on how to trouble shoot your present attempts (and provide answers to questions posed by those trying to help you so that they can provide more insightful advice). Jacques B.
Sorry I was so grumpy but it really looked bad. But now it works. I'm on the new computer with a head on my pointer and Thunderbird works.
-- Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI Linux User #450462 http://counter.li.org.
