On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 12:51 +0000, Barry Samuels wrote: [snip]
I copied the kernel config from the laptop initially and changed the IDE settings to suit the hard drive on the desktop.
Can anyone suggest anything I have missed?
Not something I have played with before but isn't it possible that once the kernel has booted the device nodes may change (the drive won't be on /dev/hda because that would be your Laptops internal drive surely) and it is probably therefore needing something like /dev/sda for the usb mass storage controller.