[HLUG] Help!!! im in trouble

[David Shorthouse]

Hi All,

Thought I would give my brother my old linux box and transfer the other better 
box i have to be my server...

Give you an idea of whats happening


ok

PC1

AMD Duron 1.3
500meg ram
40gig Drive master
20gig drive slave
DVD +-R W
Working no problem


PC2

AMD Athlon 1.8
1gig Ram
300gig Drive Primary
160 Slave
160
DVD+RW

I took a backup a disc image/clone of the original 80gig drive that was in pc1 
no problem
I then tried to put the 80gig drive in my pc2 & I had the same error about 
smart monitor the hardidsk is about to fail... wouldnt boot.
I then restore the image I took and bet teh message 
resume device
/dev/system/swap not found
Volume group "system" not found
Waiting for device /dev/system/root to appear..................... not 
found -- exiting to /bin/sh
sh:no job control in this shell


Good news I put the drive back in pc1 boots up no problem...

I am not 100% sure but I installed linux using LVM which has stopped me from 
seeing my linux file structure.this has never happened when using resier3 or 
any of the other formats...

What is the poss of this working...
Copy all the files from the 80gig drive to a backup drive.
install suse on my 300gig drive once installed copy all the files from the 
backup disk onto my 300gig drive? any ideas would be appreciated 

Dave