Rajko M. wrote:
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.
Hi Rajko,
Yes, I've come to the same conclusion - just thought that some one would
have an easy answer. If not, I will take apart the initrd on the live
CD/DVD and try to adapt it to my master HDD (will also make sure all the
necessary modules are on the hdd) and see if will then be able to boot
of ANY system just like the LIVE version. Was hoping for a "silver
bullet" solution!!
Again, thanks.
Rgds. Otto
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