can't boot linux anymore

From: nico (nico97492_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/31/03 

Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 19:14:06 -0800

I would like to exchange my machine with another one, and I feel that
the easiest way is to swap the 2 hard disks. The problem is the new
machine doesn't want to boot on the exchanged disk. On the former
machine, the disk was master and on the first connector (the kernel was
on hda3). In the new machine, the disk is connected in the same way (at
least when I boot with the boot cd a "fdisk /dev/hda" shows me the disk)
but the boot does not complete. I get the grub prompt, boot, but it
seems to freeze after the irq probing (or before showing the list of
processes/deamons being started). I use redhat7.3.
Does someone have any idea of why the new machine can not boot the
exchanged disk? (the new machine is only 1 year newer).
Thank you

Nico

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