Switching motherboard: troubleshooting?

[blu_discuss at seremeth.com (Steve Seremeth)]

Josh ChaitinPollak wrote:

> Just a guess, but I've often found that drives are detected as  
> different partitions on different motherboards, based on the drive's  
> controller, and even when you boot from the install disk vs the  
> harddrive.
>
> Make sure you harddrive installation has the right driver modules  
> being loaded, and check if somehow the drive is being found on a SCSI  
> or LVM device or something like that.

My SATA drives using onboard RAID are /dev/sd* .  Having said this, the 
other RAID controller on the board assigned my PATA drives as /dev/hd*, 
so I agree with Josh on this one and would check to see how the drives 
are being assigned if at all possible.  A boot disk or live linux distro 
could help here, perhaps.

Steve