Loaded RH-8.0 on a hard drive mounted in a PII (686) system. My goal is to install this new hard drive in my DMZ server, which is 586 based. Prior to installing this hard drive into my dmz server, I created a tarball of /boot and /lib/modules from another 586 based system that is also running RH-8.0 and replaced these files/directories on the new hardrive. Then proceeded to boot the new hard drive on my DMZ server. Unfortunately, when the system boots -- it hangs on the INIT stage. :-( Grub works, the kernel starts to boot, but just hangs after printing "Freeing up memory". Sorry can't get a cut/paste at this stage in the boot process. But when I put the original drive back into my DMZ server, the next statement (process) after "Freeing up memory" is INIT. Obviously I missed something in my understanding of what files are architecture dependent.
I have looked at (printed) all the rpm's architectures and only see that the kernel is compiled for a particular architecture. Everything else seems to be i386 based. i.e. rpm -qa. Even glibc. Am I missing something obvious here? I am trying to minimize my downtime by loading RH-8.0 on another system and configuring all the apps prior to installing this new hard rive in my DMZ server. If I had a spare 586, I would have used it, but... Any pointers would be appreciated. I'd hate to lose all the time I have put into this project. Thanks Steve Cowles -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
