[Gllug] Old disk in new machine *just worked*

[Paul Rayner]

I had a PC (running FC4) die last night [*1]. I took the disk out of 
it, and put it into a different PC. My intention was to boot a Damn 
Small Linux live CD I'd just downloaded, manually run the rsync which 
should have run last night, install fedora on the other disk in the new 
PC, then copy the files back from the old disk.

I wasn't paying attention when I thought the live CD was booting, the 
CD boot failed, and the PC booted straight from the old disk. I 
wouldn't expect a full Fedora install from one machine to boot cleanly 
in another (different motherboard, different manufacturer etc.) ifdown 
complained about the MAC address, but that's to be expected, apart from 
that there have been no problems.

This raises 2 questions:

	1) Did this work through luck or design? I presume it's a bit of both

	2) Are there any things I should check for, other than a trawl through 
/var/log/messages tomorrow?

Regards,

Paul

[*1] It kept rebooting at intervals of 10sec-15mins, replaced the power 
supply - same problem, unhooked the reset button, still same problem
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