[WISPA] Linux Question
Windows can sometimes cope with the hard drive being moved into a machine with different hardware. Can Linux handle this gracefully? -- - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Linux Question
Windows can almost never switch to different hardware. If they're the same southbridge it tends to work, but otherwise it's screwed. BSODs half way through the Windows loading logo. The linux kernel will swap modules in new hardware. That simple. I've done it in several rhel distros and a couple debian. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Mike Hammett wispawirel...@ics-il.netwrote: Windows can sometimes cope with the hard drive being moved into a machine with different hardware. Can Linux handle this gracefully? -- - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Linux Question
I've doe this numerous times on linux and it always just boots right up. Much better than windows in this regard. Cameron On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Mike Hammett wispawirel...@ics-il.netwrote: Windows can sometimes cope with the hard drive being moved into a machine with different hardware. Can Linux handle this gracefully? -- - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Linux Question
From exeperience, Linux handled this procedure 100% efficiently. Roney Eduardo WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Linux Question
Should be cool assuming the default driver set will support the new hardware Sent from my iPhone On Mar 2, 2011, at 1:33 PM, Mike Hammett wispawirel...@ics-il.net wrote: Windows can sometimes cope with the hard drive being moved into a machine with different hardware. Can Linux handle this gracefully? -- - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com --- --- --- --- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ --- --- --- --- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Linux Question
If it's a RedHat variant, the drivers are loaded in the initrd image (stored in /boot/), which is built based on values in /etc/modprobe.conf. You'll see a line like this... alias scsi_hostadapter sata_nv If the source and target system have the same storage adapter (sata_nv in this case), then it should at least boot. If not, you can find out which module the target system uses, add a line like this... alias scsi_hostadapter1 sata_somethingelse ...and reinstall the kernel package. That'll trigger a rebuild of the initrd image, including the storage adapter of the target system. YMMV, -Kristian On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 15:33 -0600, Mike Hammett wrote: Windows can sometimes cope with the hard drive being moved into a machine with different hardware. Can Linux handle this gracefully? WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Linux Question
Kudzu does a great job managing all of that stuff where it can. If you change controller types entirely, obviously, you're going to have problems from BIOS to boot, just change those pieces accordingly. This is besides OS preference, mostly dependent on the bootloader. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Kristian Hoffmann kh...@fire2wire.comwrote: If it's a RedHat variant, the drivers are loaded in the initrd image (stored in /boot/), which is built based on values in /etc/modprobe.conf. You'll see a line like this... alias scsi_hostadapter sata_nv If the source and target system have the same storage adapter (sata_nv in this case), then it should at least boot. If not, you can find out which module the target system uses, add a line like this... alias scsi_hostadapter1 sata_somethingelse ...and reinstall the kernel package. That'll trigger a rebuild of the initrd image, including the storage adapter of the target system. YMMV, -Kristian On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 15:33 -0600, Mike Hammett wrote: Windows can sometimes cope with the hard drive being moved into a machine with different hardware. Can Linux handle this gracefully? WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
