> You most likely have trashed MBRs so the system cannot see or use then to > boot.
Don't forget that there has been this ugly transition period in the Linux kernel where originally hard drive device files (/dev/hda*, /dev/hdb*, ...) were relatively fixed even across different systems because of the physical cabling. So long as you hook them up the same, they appear the same on different mobos. So distros used to rely these device names in /etc/fstab . Recent times has introduced more dynamically named disks. Throwing in LVM can make this even more tricky. Recently most distros have swiched to using UUIDs in /etc/fstab to uniquely identify drives even when they don't have the same device files. However, I suspect based on the age of Bill's system, it was probably built in the transition period. Just one hypothesis for the lack of portability... tim _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
