Rajko M. wrote:
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.
Hi Rajko,
Yep - I agree with what you say as it has also been my experience. In my
case I try to keep ALL the filesystems consistent with ALL my users so
this has not been a problem However, if a M/B crashes and needs to be
replaced it then becomes a real pain to resolve. Hence I was trying to
find out whether there was an easy way or a HOWTO to do a full install
(creating a MASTER HDD for cloning) and then to somehow use a similar
initrd or whatever is on the LIVE CD/DVD to make the MASTER HDD work
similar to the LIVE CD/DVD for hardware detection.
Again, thanks for your reply and help.
Rgds. Otto.
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