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Re: mother board swap



 On Nov 23, 2007, at 19:36, Stephen Adler wrote: 

> I did a mother board swap to a system I have, and now I've painted   
> myself into a corner. The mother board I got has the nvidia sata   
> chip set and requires the driver to be loaded at boot time. In the   
> original mother board, the one in which redhat was installed, a   
> different sata chip set was used and thus a different sata driver.   
> So the kernel is configured to use the old driver, not the nvidia   
> one, which I need to run the system. Is there a way of   
> reconfiguring the kernel without have to do a re-install? Some how,   
> it would be like putting together a new initrd image with the   
> correct drivers... 


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