[TriLUG] Boot hangs when moving disk to another system

[Brian Henning]

Speculation:
   I've seen instances where there are different packages for i686 
(Intel) versus athlon (AMD).  It could be possible (couldn't it?) that 
your kernel is expecting an athlon-specific instruction set that won't 
work on an Intel machine.

This is purely uneducated speculation, though.  I trust someone will 
jump up and holler if I am wrong. :-)

At any rate, my suggestion would be to try to find another AMD box to 
try the drive in, if possible.

Cheers,
~Brian


Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:
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> I have an AMD box that just crapped out (I suspect an overtemp
> fry).  I need to get the host back online ASAP, so I've tried
> moving the sole IDE drive to another box and booting.  Unfortunately,
> it gets to the 'Uncompressing kernel ... Ok.  Booting linux'
> message.. and then hangs.  (I didn't check to see if there was
> disk activity.)
> 
> I tried moving the drive to a P4 box, and then to a much older
> IBM box, with no change in behaviour.
> 
> The AMD box appears to be a total loss, and getting it replaced
> would take days to weeks.  Does anyone have any suggestions for
> a) how to debug the problem with booting from the disk on a different
> box, and b) how to get past the hang?
> 
> Thanks!
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