[TriLUG] Migrating IDE to SATA boot error

[Craig Duncan]

Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Craig Duncan wrote:
>
>> It should be there, we copied /boot so the kernel and initrd should 
>> be identical.
>
> but is it there? Without it, the BIOS will read the first sector and 
> start loading the kernel, but unless the kernel has the SATA PCI card 
> driver, the kernel can't read the disk
>
> Joe
>
The short answer is I do not know, nor how to find out. I looked at a 
similar machine with a SATA drive and did notice that the initrd file 
was of a different size. I tried copying that but got the same error. I 
am sure there is a simple way to fix this, but unfortunately I have run 
out of time. I copied all my data over to another machine and will 
reinstall on the old.

Thanks for the help.

Craig