Re: Moving Fedora 9 Hard Disk To Another System

2008-11-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Aldo Foot wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is more likely is that the motherboard is using a different hard drive controller. The new controller requires a different module from the original one. So you have to build a new initrd for

Re: Moving Fedora 9 Hard Disk To Another System

2008-11-20 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Original Message Subject: Re: Moving Fedora 9 Hard Disk To Another System From: Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. fedora-list@redhat.com Date: 11/19/2008 08:08 PM What is more likely

Re: Moving Fedora 9 Hard Disk To Another System

2008-11-20 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:30:26AM -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Original Message Subject: Re: Moving Fedora 9 Hard Disk To Another System From: Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. fedora-list

Re: Moving Fedora 9 Hard Disk To Another System

2008-11-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Michael Cronenworth wrote: Original Message Subject: Re: Moving Fedora 9 Hard Disk To Another System From: Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. fedora-list@redhat.com Date: 11/19/2008 08:08 PM What

Re: Moving Fedora 9 Hard Disk To Another System

2008-11-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Paul Johnson wrote: When the kernel is updated, the Fedora 9 framework will rebuild a new initrd and it will NOT have the special modules in it. On fedora systems, I found no simpler solution than to edit the new-kernel script and change the modules that were assumed. Otherwise, the boot

Re: Moving Fedora 9 Hard Disk To Another System

2008-11-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: When the kernel is updated, the Fedora 9 framework will rebuild a new initrd and it will NOT have the special modules in it. On fedora systems, I found no simpler solution than to edit the

Re: Moving Fedora 9 Hard Disk To Another System

2008-11-20 Thread Phil Meyer
Paul Johnson wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: When the kernel is updated, the Fedora 9 framework will rebuild a new initrd and it will NOT have the special modules in it. On fedora systems, I found no simpler

Re: Moving Fedora 9 Hard Disk To Another System

2008-11-20 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Paul Johnson wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson What I have done in the past is to boot off the install media, select the rescue mode, and then chroot to where the root file system is mounted. I thin build the new initrd, making sure it matches the kernel I plan to

RE: Moving Fedora 9 Hard Disk To Another System

2008-11-20 Thread Joseph L. Casale
When the kernel is updated, the Fedora 9 framework will rebuild a new initrd and it will NOT have the special modules in it. On the CentOS list, a similar discussion revealed a procedure to facilitate this: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-November/067688.html jlc --

Re: Moving Fedora 9 Hard Disk To Another System

2008-11-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Manish Kathuria wrote: For a large installation of Fedora 9 we are cloning an updated system on identical hard disks and then using that hard disk on other systems. Most of the systems are either Pentium 4 or Core Duo processor based and are capable of running the same kernel (i686) The minor