O.K., just
how did you do the "transfer?"
dd to another drive, or a
dump /
load, or some other method? Do you have the "older" drive available, and does the system run properly with
that drive installed instead of the newer one?
When you say "
It's just a single drive hda1," you're implying that the whole Linux Kisok is installed on a single partition of
(hd0) (in GRUB notation). This seems unusual since most Linux systems work better with the swap file on a different partition, although a logical volume can include
swap and
/ in the same physical partition. (Does Linux Kisok even use LVM?)
You say that "
Knoppix just hangs at the RTC so thats no go." How long did you wait at that "hang?" Knoppix can take as much as twenty minutes to decide that it's not getting anywhere, but it usually manages to boot. But this suggest that the hd you're using may have some hardware problem. So, what steps have you taken to verify that the hd is actually properly installed and running?
You can download the
System Rescue CD from
here. This live CD includes several tools for checking hard drives.