On Thursday 26 April 2007 00:30, 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. > > 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?? > > Thanks for any help / info in this area.
Hi Otto, It is hardware specific. It is probably part of efforts to make computer boot faster, so initrd contains drivers that are needed for hardware in question. I haven't need to use repair option on installation CD/DVD, after change of motherboard, but I guess that would be the way to go. The other option, that might be faster if it works, would be to use Boot Installed System option, in boot menu, to boot the system and than run mkinitrd It will use files in /boot directory to create new initrd. If that fails, you may run mkinitrd -h that will list options, or look man page. -- Regards, Rajko. http://en.opensuse.org/Portal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
