[SWLUG] Transferred disk but wont boot

[Matthew Moore]

On Wednesday 24 September 2008 19:46:28 Neil Jones wrote:
> I have taken a linux disk out of a dual boot two disk machine and
> installed it as a single disk in a machine that used to run windows.
> This is a modern distro (mandriva 2008.)
> . The machine won't boot. It gets as far as verifying DMA pool data and
> hangs.
>
> Can anyone tell me how I can fix this? What is the problem?
>

Which hard drive has the bootloader on it?  Did you use grub/lilo to boot from 
on the old dual boot machine?  It could be that it's not looking in the right 
place any more for the boot information.

Cheers,

Matt