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<< booting problem with redhat 8.0 >>

i have the Redhat installed in this Hard Drive and i wanna use it in this old computer of mine.. it works fine in my new computer.. but when i put it in my old one.. which is.. P1 150MHz 32MBramz it wont load the kernal and keeps on restarting the computer.. keeps on goin like this.. i get the GRUB screen whre i can edit comand line and stuff.. so if you know wat can i do.. to get it work in my old computer. .. i'd appreciate it..

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because you need to install grub to run the specs for the system you are running it on. YOu can get away with moving a hard drive with an OS installed on it from one P4 to another P4, you can even get away with moving it from a P4 to a P3 sometimes, but moving it from what I'm guessing is a more modern computer to a P1 isnt going to fly. Plus, the boot images may be above the limit that the P1 has for booting from...
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I'm guessing your going to have to recompile the kernel on this one, but if its not booting, perhaps you need to do a full install.
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