Images on SATA drives

[schemie44]

Hi

We are upgrading from Suse 9.1 to Suse 10.1. I cant get I-Burst running on Suse 9.1 but it is running 100% on Suse 10.1. Now what we did before was prepping a Suse 9.1 image with G4U and deploying it to new harddrives(IDE) for our new clients +- 100 so far.

We are now trying Sata drive because it is getting cheaper than ide drives. I got Suse 10.1 running 100% on a Sata drive, image is created with G4U. As soon as you plug a Sata drive in to a machine with a different motherboard than what the installation was done on, if fails. It cant mount /dev/sda2.

Is there someone that knows how we can solve this problem?

[AlexK]

in this 2nd machine, is there another harddrive in it already? i.e. another one in addition to the drive you just put in?

[schemie44]

Thanks for replying.

The destination pc has now harddrives installed. The harddrive wtih Suse 10.1, I install as a master on SATA1, and DVD rom on Secondary Master(IDE).

[AlexK]

ok then, grab yourself a livecd such as knoppix and boot it on the computer which you are having trouble with.
now once knoppix boots, post back results from following commands:
1. execute

fdisk -l

that is lowercase L

less /mnt/sda2/boot/grub/menu.lst

if menu.lst doesn't exist, try grub.conf instead.

[schemie44]

I tried those commands. It is not giving me any results.

I'm using Knoppix Std. Will it make any difference.

[AlexK]

have you tried running those commands as root? Also try mounting the drive (click on the drive icon in knoppix and tell it to mount). Then look for grub.conf