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AriciU

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Registered: 2007-08-31

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Changed motherboard, can't boot anymore

This is my 4th motherboard swap. I first installed arch on my old AthlonXP system. I upgraded to an Intel Core 2 Duo, with a Gigabyte P35 motherboard. The swap went fine, i didn't have to reinstall Arch or anything like that, it just worked. I then swaped the Gigabyte mobo for an Asus P35 mobo. Same thing, everything went fine. Yesterday i changed the Asus for a DFI P35 mobo and all hell broke loose for some reason. It's complaining about the hard drives while trying to boot. I've tried both my regular kernel and the safemode (forgot how it was called) backup kernel, same stuff... Here's a picture to show where i'm stuck, those messages keep repeating themselvs over and over and i can't boot the damn thing.

Click on pic for bigger version if necessary.

BTW: i'm using the same HDD setup i had from my old Athlon days, nothing's changed. 2 x SATA HDD's, 1 IDE HDD, 1 SATA DVDRW.

Last edited by AriciU (2008-02-07 23:43:19)

Crooksey

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Re: Changed motherboard, can't boot anymore

Can you boot a live cd and successfully mount the partitions?

This will test to see if its just a kernel recompile thats required, or maybe a hardware issue.

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AriciU

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Registered: 2007-08-31

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Re: Changed motherboard, can't boot anymore

Hmm, i think i still have the Ubuntu cd stashed somewhere (yeah i hate Ubuntu too ). I'll give it a go with that and post back.

AriciU

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Re: Changed motherboard, can't boot anymore

Same stuff with the livecd unfortunately.

koch

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Registered: 2008-01-26

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Re: Changed motherboard, can't boot anymore

in have no idea but first i would check bios-settings twice and perhaps check your cables. da you have something like a knoppix-cd with tools for harddrives?
that is what i would try first.
hope you get it working...

AriciU

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Registered: 2007-08-31

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Re: Changed motherboard, can't boot anymore

Hard drives and partitons are ok. I'm currently on windoze, have IFS drives installed and it sees my EXT3/2 partitons fine... everything is still there like it should. I'll check out the BIOS and play with the "See SATA as IDE" type setting.

Last edited by AriciU (2008-02-08 00:12:05)

AriciU

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Registered: 2007-08-31

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Re: Changed motherboard, can't boot anymore

Yup. I set the SATA from IDE to AHCI and not it works. Sort of... it's telling me that my superblock is crapped and i can't run the e2fsck command like it says there. I ran e2fsck without the -b flag and it went on fine but same error on next boot

AriciU

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Registered: 2007-08-31

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Re: Changed motherboard, can't boot anymore

A few reboots and it fixed itself :rolleyes:

koch

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Registered: 2008-01-26

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Re: Changed motherboard, can't boot anymore

the magic of computers but even better than...

wuischke

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Registered: 2007-01-06

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Re: Changed motherboard, can't boot anymore

OT:(Feel free to remove if not appropriate - but please send me a PM and tell me whether there would be a better place for such a rant)

(yeah i hate Ubuntu too )

Do you mean "I don't like" or do you really want to say "I hate"?

What's wrong with you guys? OK, every time I have to use Windows (even worse with Visual Studio) or a stock Ubuntu I feel the urge to run away and hide under a pile of pillows, too, but that's no hate, that's just dislike.

But now in the forums I often read something on the lines of: "Go to Ubuntu if you're too stupid to do things yourself." or other negative comments about Ubuntu.

Why the elitism? Many people made their first steps in Linux with Ubuntu and it may not be the best, but it is a good distribution. No reason to hate it.

AriciU

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Registered: 2007-08-31

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Re: Changed motherboard, can't boot anymore

No elitism mate. Just joking... It's a trend to bash on Ubuntu i guess It's a good distro but i just "hate / don't like / find it boring" that everything just works out of the box (just like on Windows).