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On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 02:06 +0000, Simon Robert wrote: > After checking the harddrive is OK, by pluging it in to No. 2 I have > purchased a "barebones" PC form Novatech. Basicaly this is the works > with no harddrive or DVD burner. > > I'm pretty sure I've plugged it in OK. The DVD drive works and when I > boot it I get the boot screen for PClinuxOS. It's after that it all goes > pear shaped. Umm, is this a harddrive pre-configured on a different machine and now inserted into a machine with a different motherboard etc? Various configuration settings are hardware-specific not in terms of architecture but in terms of the actual chipsets used on the board. Packages installed and configured for one motherboard are unlikely to work with a completely different board. Reinstall. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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