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On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 10:16 +0000, Grant Sewell wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:34:16 +0000 > Neil Williams wrote: > > 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. > > Would it not be possible to boot from a 'rescue medium', > chroot/pivotroot to the 'old' system and reconfigure? Possible - depends on how the harddrive is setup. If there is a separate /home partition then a reinstall would be quicker, smoother and a lot less hassle. If /home would be clobbered by the installer reformatting the partition, then a pivotroot would be the only way to rescue the data. It depends how important it is to preserve the data already on the harddrive (and whether a rescue medium is able to boot and mount it). -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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