Quote Originally Posted by Vanyatka
First of all thanks for the reply.

Now, I tried this change to lilo.conf - it pushed us a little closer - I mean it starts loading now, but still halts at the point that i have interpreted as a try to move the old root (don't know for what purpose) and it gives me an error saying "no init found. blah..blah" but that after two pages of configuration mumble.. So there's a progress we're having here.. before that it didn't get here.

To your question baldyeti - I boot knoppix from CD on the newer machine. It's the older one I want to run from HD so i stick that hd on the newer machine to get it working without the CD.

An update - now i get this error
"Kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:09"
lilo.conf looks like this now:
Code:
lba32
boot=/dev/hda
install=/boot/boot-menu.b
backup=/dev/null
map=/boot/map
timeout=100
vga=normal

image=/mnt/hda1/vmlinuz 
    initrd=/mnt/hda1/minirt24.gz 
    append="fromhd=/dev/hda5 home=/dev/hda6 lang=us apm=power-off quiet BOOT_IMAGE=Knoppix"
    label=Knoppix2.4
Lilo.conf looks OK to me although I think the "BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix" is not necessary. Try it without, see if it makes any difference.
I question though why is there a separate partition for boot. Perhaps this is why it cannot find itself? Why not just put the whole 'toHD' install on one partition, boot images included. (separate partitions for home & swap, of course).