Re: Launching OS from different motherboard (was recovering secure data for client)
From: Walter Mautner (nownews.10.eatallspam_at_spamgourmet.com)
Date: 05/19/04
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Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 19:46:26 +0200
Marcus wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Thank you for the response to my earlier topic. I received the 'box'
> from the client the other day, but with the hard drive removed and
> packed separately. I reinstalled the HD (physically) and attempted to
> boot the system, but I get no POST messages from the BIOS, keyboard or
> HDD detection, nothing. It appears as though the motherboard itself or
> the BIOS is bad.
>
Or the PSU or cabling or whatever else.
Remember, if there's valuable data on the drive, to take an image of it
(best take the whole drive) from a knoppix cd using dd to a network or
directly connected 2nd bigger drive.
Then use the image or even a 2nd copy of it to work with.
> My question is this: Can I boot the original drive and file system
> from a different configuration (i.e. motherboard and BIOS)? If I make
> this attempt would I corrupt the file system? Perhaps I could boot
> with rescue CD (like knoppix) and change the config files first.
>
You can always try, but - as already told - use the same ide port as on the
original box, or you have to change fstab and rerun lilo or grub from a
mounted chrooted system.
With knoppix this can be as easy as (from mind, don't hang me if I missed
something)
$ su
# mkdir /mnt/root
# mount /dev/hd[a-d][X] /mnt/root
# cd /mnt/root
# vi /mnt/root/etc/lilo.conf or fstab
# chroot /mnt/root
# cd /etc
# lilo -v
# exit
# umount /mnt/root
Then reboot and pray.
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