Stanislaw Flatto wrote:
>
> OK so lets get "serious". Now, that the Greek show is finished.
> The "funny" part that tickles me till I go loco is:
> NO differences, another hard drive with the "resident" working and
> configured distribution copied to it.
> The "copied" OS performs perfectly as the old one did. (I am using it now)
> The old one cannot be brought into working state, no change in hardware,
> kernel or other external components.
> Will give it another trial and then those partitions became storage space.
> But it was interesting time, fighting with unknown and missunderstood
> behaviour of our "reliable" distribution.
>
Whatever it is you did to get the copy to work properly from its new
partition made it so that the old one won't work properly from its old
partition any more, probably /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf. And/or /boot.
You can look up any of this stuff - it could be an interesting exercise
for you. :-)

Cheers!
Rich