Moving RedHat 5.5 Install

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Have an existing Redhat 5.5 install on a 975P C2D w/Quadro FX1500. Cloned the disk to a freshly zero-filled one using Clonezilla and it booted right up on an X58 i7 920 w/8400GS.

However, when trying to do the same thing on a Z77 3570K w/ the same 8400GS, the X-server falls flat on its face (I get NV : No supported devices, no displays found). Any idea what would cause this?

<-- *nix n00b. Apologies in advance 🙂

 

[KillerBee]

Have you tried running system-config-display ?

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Can I run that without root? Work provided a crappy 'puter (C2D E6600, 2GB).
I'm cloning the RH5.5 install to run on my own hardware on the qt. Worked well with the i7 920 (and gave a helluva speedup),
but I'm greedy and would like to see what the 3570K can do 🙂

 

[KillerBee]

Nope, will need root , but that's usually easy enough unless they locked down grub.

boot to Single User
http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.2/Installation_Guide/s1-rescuemode-booting-single.html

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Ah, that's good. If I remember correctly, GRUB was not locked down 🙂
Incidentally, what would I have to do if a NIC isn't supported natively? Both the 975P and X58 had RTL8111 NICs, but this new mobo has an Atheros one.

 

[KillerBee]

run "lspci | grep Ether " to show the model of Atheros network board.

Then download one of the kmod-atxxx drivers from ELRepo
http://elrepo.org/

Something like this:
http://blog.namran.net/2012/01/17/a...-ar8131-gigabit-ethernet-driver-for-centos-5/

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Thanks! Got it working. Restoring a "fresh" copy of image took care of the X-server oddities. 🙂