Switching motherboard: troubleshooting?

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 11:09:21AM -0500, Rich Braun wrote:
> To reiterate:  when I boot off the hard drive, I get a kernel that fails to
> probe the IDE controller, period.  It gets me into a shell that has enough
> commands to take a look at /proc and /dev but not much else.  (Note that /dev
> -- constructed by kernel at bootup -- does not contain entries for the hard
> drives.)

Sounds like this kernel does not have built in drivers for IDE.
Is there an initrd which isn't built correctly? Otherwise,
you'll need to build a new kernel.

> One other question I have is grub's concept of the CD's device name.  Grub
> uses names like hd(0,0) instead of /dev/hda1.

(hd0) is the first accessible disk. (hd0,0) is the first
partition on that disk. 

-dsr-