Migrating to a new mom board.

[Darryl Gibson <n2diy postoffice worldnet att net>]

Hello,

I just spent a couple of hours migrating my linux hard drive from an old
486/33 mhz 8 meg. box, to a not so old 586/100mhz 64 meg. box. At first,
lilo would only "li" but after doing a lot of board swapping, and
disabling of the mom board ide controllers, she is now up and running.
Once I found the right cmos settings, I was able to re-enable the on
board ide controllers. 

All my problems resolved around the mom boards cmos setup selections for
the hard drive, and silly things like hooking the hard drive to the
secondary IDE cable, and not the primary cable. A trap I believe my
roomate set for me, I thought there where a lot of cables in the box,
but I didn't check them, so I didn't even know there was a secondary IDE
plug on the mom board, with a cable attached. 

This was my roomates old box, that's why I wasn't familar with it. And
he wasn't familar with it either, all he knew is it worked, after he
fished it out of the Raritan River after the Flood of Floydd last Sept.

This was one of five boxes salvaged from the banks of the river, and
every mom board survived, none of the monitors did, though I think they
are repairable, and half the hard drives survived. All the floppies and
cdroms were lost.

Getting back on the topic, the modem and vga card migrated without any
compliants.

I happy to report good news here, I thought this would be a difficult
project, but I'm glad I could accomplish it without crying for help on
this list.

TTYS

Darryl