Jacques B. wrote:
No! Grub was working fine. Booting to the kernel worked fine. But the information in the kernel supporting files is for the old computer. To change those I had to re-load F7 and that gave me the proper data for this other computer.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. 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 K5DIExcellent. I suspect the settings in grub.conf was at issue. Because unless your new system had the same type of drive (IDE or SATA) on the same bus, grub.conf would most likely be pointing to the wrong location for the stage 2 boot loader (hence kernel panic). By running the recovery from the boot DVD it no doubt went in and recognized your hardware,made the proper entries in grub.conf for the stage 2 boot loader and likely updated your hardware configuration file(s) (I say likely but I am not certain if it would have done that or if that would have happened on re-boot). When I saw all the advice you were getting, knowing a bit more of what you likely attempted to do, I realized that the advice was given based on what you provided in this thread but likely without the knowledge of the background of what you had done. Jacques B.
It is working now and I am glad. The thought of a new start was bad due to all the updates I would get again.
-- Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI Linux User #450462 http://counter.li.org.
