On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Per Jessen
Quite possibly, but many users might very well move their disk(s) to a new system when the old one gives up. Which amounts to the same thing.
If your hardware controller is different, that will screw up intird. I've ran into that on several occasions. I've swapped out drives between machines and a lot of times if the hardware is similar(thinkpad 390X to Thinkpad X21), then it will work but you have to tweak things like the video and sound. The chipsets on those machines are 440BX's so the boot setting doesn't change. However, when I tried swapping a boot drive from a Dell with an P4/i840 to a Tualatin P3/Via, it failed to boot. Being too lazy to fix it manually, I just reinstalled. The initrd is set for a particular type of hardware and if the hardware changes too much it won't work. That should be expected. Try swapping a Windows XP boot drive to completely different hardware. While there ARE ways to do it, 99% of the time most people will have to reinstall. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org