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AP81

Member

Registered: 2006-10-01

Posts: 36

Using Arch Install on different computers

Hi guys,

I have installed and configured arch 0.7 a while ago (using beyond 2.6.19-beyond kernel) on a machine with a motherboard with a VIA chipset.  I have also been ghosting the entire drive to other machines (all the machines are identical in hardware) with no problem as one would expect.  However, now I have the need to ghost to machines with a slightly different configuration (nForce NCP-55 chipset and socket AM2 CPU).  Apart from these two changes, the systems are identical.

I have made an attempt to do clone my drive to the nForce chipset system, however the system hangs on the word GRUB and it doesn't make it to the grub menu.

On the nForce chipset I have tried:
- reinstalling GRUB (I don't think that this is the problem)
- Adding: the MODULES pata_amd and ata_generic to mkinitcpio.conf & rebuilding the kernel image

I haven't tried upgrading the kernel yet.

Is it possible 2.6.19-beyond has issues with the nForce chipset?  Should I go ahead with the kernel upgrade?  Where should I go from here?

I don't want to do a full re-install (yet) as I spent a lot of time customizing this Arch install.

Thx

gradgrind

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2005-10-06

Posts: 921

Re: Using Arch Install on different computers

If it's not even making it to the grub menu, it can't be a kernel problem because the kernel hasn't been loaded yet - it must be something around grub itself.

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