Re: do I need to reinstall linux?
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 11:18:54PM +0100, J.A.Serralheiro wrote:
> imagine I have a dead board, and i find a used one working fine. Both
> have the same type of processor ( pentium 166 Mhz). do I need to
> reinstall? I just mounted the harddrive on the good board, but boot
> up sequence halted while
You should be OK. The only thing you need is
edit /etc/modules (If it has different peripherals like NIC...)
make sure HDD is on same IDE port
make sure BIOS is ready for HDD
Boot with "Linux 1" to get into single user may help some time to
configure.
If it stops during Lilo, it may be BIOS issue.
Regards
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