In message from "David Mathog" <mat...@caltech.edu> (Thu, 20 Aug 2009
11:29:17 -0700):
"Mikhail Kuzminsky" <k...@free.net> wrote:
I moved Western Digital SATA HDD w/SuSE 10.3 installed (on dual
Barcelona server) to dual Nehalem server (master HDD on Nehalem
server) with Supermicro X8DTi mobo.
Which means any number of drivers will have to change. The boot
could
only succeed if all of these new drivers are present in the distro
AND
the installation isn't hardwired to use information from the previous
system. The first may be true,
It was, of course, the main hope
the second is almost certainly false.
... and the second can be resolved IMHO w/o difficult problems.
On Mandriva, and probably Red Hat, and maybe Suse, even cloning
between
"identical" systems requires that that the file:
/etc/udev/rules.d/61-net_config.rules
be removed before reboot as it holds a copy of the MAC from the
previous
system, and no two machines (should) have the same MAC even if they
are
otherwise identical.
SuSE have this "problem", but at least 11.1 have special setting to
avoid such udev behaviour. And updating of network settings isn't a
problem.
There are a lot of other files in the same
directory which I believe hold similar machine specific information.
Similarly, your /etc/modprobe.conf will almost certainly load modules
which are not appropriate for the new system.
Is there some modules which depends from processors ?
The NIC drivers isn't a problem.
If there is an /etc/sysconfig directory there may be files there that also hold
machine specific information. The /etc/sensors.conf configuration will also
certainly also be incorrect.
Of course, lm_sensors and NICs settings have to be changed. But HDDs
for example was the same (excluding size).
Perhaps you can successfully boot the system in safe mode and then
run
whatever configuration tool Suse provides to reset all of these
hardware
specific files?
The problem don't depends from kind of load (safemode or usual).
David Mathog
mat...@caltech.edu
Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech
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