Booting Gentoo on a different PC

alexbuell · Last edited by alexbuell on Wed Feb 18, 2004 7:12 pm; edited 1 time in total

Recently I've had the misfortune to have my Athlon motherboard fail. I've got a spare PC that has a 1.8GHz Celeron in it but I've just found out Gentoo won't boot on the spare PC because the kernel and system are optimised specifically for the Athlon XP processor. Any ideas how I might get it up and running on the spare PC - I'm quite happy recompiling everything but I need to preserve the system and its settings as it is.

Any ideas how I may do this?
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adaptr · Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 6:57 pm Post subject:

Boot up with a LiveCD that does support the Celeron, and simply hitch on to the HD on boot.
At the boot prompt type:

alexbuell · Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 8:21 pm Post subject: Rats

Just tried that, it boots, but then says it can't open an initial console and spontaneously reboots.
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Alex.

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adaptr · Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 8:47 pm Post subject:

If all you want to do is backup your data then just boot the LiveCD and mount the Gentoo partitions.
You can't use the installed Gentoo on the Celeron, so you'll have to recompile everything anyway.
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