I bought a used latop with no OS and tried putting in my hard drive from my other laptop and it booted fine (got the GRUB screen), however, when i choose Red Hat, it freezes, telling me that it cannot find INIT, try option ... Funny thing is, windows xp loads just fine, anyone have any idea how to solve this? I can't do a fresh install because I cannot load from usb and don't have the external cd drive (or the external floppy). Any ideas on solving this issue somehow using linux or using Windows? I have partition magic so I can access all of the linux files from within windows.

tia

U may have to edit ur fstab and change the partition parameter.

For eg ur harddisk may have been primary master in ur old comp which means /dev/hda* in linux, when u add the haddisk to a new comp either u should add it as a primary master or change ur fstab accordingly, say to /dev/hdb or /dev/hdc or whatever

They are both laptops, so they only fit one hard drive each, and the hard drive is what I'm transfering between them, so I don't think that could be the problem if i understand your suggestion correctly.

Any other suggestions?

another problem is no two linux boxes r the same, so may be reinstalling is the only option AFAIK,

i am be wrong though