upgrade

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Vu Pham wrote:
> I upgrade my workstation from AMD FX to Intel Xtreme and I switch the
> motherboard from Asus to Gigabyte. When I move the harddrive (with Suse
> 10.1) to the new system, it boots and exits to the shell with error
> saying that it cannot detect /dev/sda2 which is my partition / , and I
> cannot use the USB keyboard also.
>
> 1. I guess it is because the sata controllers on the two motherboards
> are not the same ?

That is correct.

>
> 2. I think Redhat will autodectect the hardware changes and update the
> driver correspondingly. Can we do it with Suse ?

No, this won't work on any distro that doesn't have the SATA controller 
kernel module in its kernel initrd.

>
> 3. I have the DVD Suse 10.2. Do you think upgrading the system will
> upgrade the driver also ?

Maybe, but I've never tried.


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