Erick Perez wrote: > Hi, > I just changed the motherboard of a centos 4.4 installation for a new one. > this new one has a SIS chipset. > Now when i boot from the hard disk i get a kernel panic (unable to find > root, no hdd found , etc) Really? > I have identified the module I need to load to make centos "see" the disks. > Now the question is what do I need to modify in my existing > installation, to > tell centos to use the new sis module and to *not* use the old intel? I fully expect moving a hard drive containing from one box to another to just work*. I do it fairly regularly too. * Within some limits; you need to have the right network drivers to hand and they need to get loaded, and that bit's a little problematic in some distros, and you have to find where to plug the network cables in. Getting X to work properly can be a little iffy too, particularly with certain Dells with Intel graphics. Anything with Intel graphics. Can't really help you though, without seeing it. You're m eyes: what do I see? Hint, You should have a current Knoppix CD handy. Every sysadmin should, including Windows sysadmins. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list