On Thursday 26 April 2007 09:09, Mike wrote: > On Thursday 26 April 2007 07:30, Otto Rodusek (AP-SGP) wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Opensuse LIVE CD/DVD is excellent at auto-detecting most types of > > hardware and can be run on a variety of configurations. > > Much the same as Knoppix. > > > However, if I install opensuse (10.2) to hard disk - the startup > > seems to be specific to the hardware configuration at time of > > installation. For example, if I were to do a full install to hdd and > > made sure that all works fine, then if I were to replace the > > motherboard, the hdd would no longer boot - usually due to a > > difference in chipsets. Is there a way to install opensuse (10.2) to > > hdd so that it does a hardware detect at startup just like in the > > LIVE DVD version?? > > I've never had a problem doing this. I've swapped drives between > computers, and although slow, they will eventually come up. Sometime > during the boot process, the system finds most everything. Once done, > you'll get the found new hardware screen, and you can complete the > process there. > > BTW, have you actually done this, or are you just guessing?
Mike, it depends on configuration. The basic set of device drivers that are needed to start computer is included in initrd, and the one that you can find in /boot directory was created during installation with drivers for your system. Having no problems is just matter of luck. It can succeed if both hardware configurations are the same for all essential drivers, but it can fail even on the same computer if you move manually system that is installed on reiserfs without any need for ext3 driver, to partition that is formatted ext3. Adjusting /etc/fstab on new copy of the system, and /boot/grub/menu.lst on boot partition is not enough. You have to find the way to boot the system and create new initrd. -- Regards, Rajko. http://en.opensuse.org/Portal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
