On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 21:01 +0000, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
On Monday 26 December 2005 10:09, Francis wrote:
Till a couple of days ago I had a Intel Pentium 3 processor and a 80 GB hdd installed with FC4 , all was well then . Now I got an AMD Athlon 64 bit 2800+ processor and a new 80 GB hdd . On the new hdd i ceated a ext2 partition and copied the whole FC4 file system to the new partition on the new hdd . Got grub installed , the issue is after the kernel starts booting I get the following message : WARNING Can't access (null) exec of init ((null)) failed : 14 kernel panic HeLppp!! Thanks in Advance
IMHO, you should create a new partition and copy the /home folder and do a completely new install. The installer will autodetect your hardware install the best (optimized) kernel for your hardware...
I agree with Dinesh, Your HW has changed from 32 bit to 64 bit, your disk geometry has changed. I suggest a 64 bit Linux. I have 64 bit Debian Sarge DVDs (courtesy Dinesh Shah that I can pass on to you - contact me off list if interested).
However, if you want to tinker around then go for an AMD64 optimized kernel and more importantly with an initrd customized with device drivers for the AMD64 mobo.