motherboard crash

[dimitris]

Tim M wrote:
> My motherboard on my backup box failed so I plugged in an old 333hz board
> and I am trying to into Kubuntu. Of course Kubuntu is not finding the
> devices it had on the other motherboard. It there a way to get my master
> hard drive working? Or do I need to install Kubuntu to another hard drive

Is the boot drive different from the "master" drive?  If it's the same
drive, the fact that it gets far enough to (try to) start the firewall
probably means the disk is "seen" fine.

> and use what is now my master hard drive as a slave until I replace the
> motherboard with a newer one? Oh as it boots it show [fail] when loading
> firestarter. I am sure other items would fail later in the boot but I
> wonder
> how to disable firestarter? I would have to know the command lines. Any
> ideas?
> tim
> 

Is networking different in the "new" motherboard?  As in different
number of network adapters, or perhaps a network adapter for which there
is no driver/module available (unlikely) or one that needs its module
added to the /etc/modules file?

If you can boot with the single-user option (called "recovery mode" in
the boot menu), try executing this on the command line:

ifconfig -a

and this:

lspci -v

HTH

D.