Switching motherboard: troubleshooting?

[richb at pioneer.ci.net (Rich Braun)]

dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote:
> 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.

Doing a binary diff between this kernel and the one on the SUSE 10 boot disk,
it's the same.

Don't know how to check whether initrd needs something done to it.

>> One other question I have is grub's concept of the CD's device name.
>
> (hd0) is the first accessible disk. (hd0,0) is the first
> partition on that disk.

I would expect that the CD (no partition table) is hd(1).  But that doesn't work.

-rich