Re: [CentOS] centos 4 installed on P4 won't boot on P3

Tom wrote:

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The DC guys tried grub-install in rescue mode but still the same.

did they check the drive lables ?

is there another drive in the machine that has the same parition label?

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is /boot/grub/grub.conf configured to point at reality ? or is it looking at non-existant stuff ...

not quite sure what you mean on both those questions, grub.conf and fstab are correct, it was a standard install which worked fine on the P4 but not at all on the P3.

moving the drive from /dev/sda to /dev/sdb can also cause the bootloader to not find the kernel / initrd and bomb out at that stage. so make sure the bootloader is installed on the right place, and knows where to find the /boot information.

- K