Re: transfer disk

2018-04-10 Thread Felix Miata
Pascal Hambourg composed on 2018-04-10 20:47 (UTC+0200): > Felix Miata composed: >> Putting a disk from an Intel system into a system with AMD, VIA or GeForce >> chipset is almost certain to fail unless the initrd includes most drivers. > This is the default (MODULES=most). Likely it's one of

Re: transfer disk

2018-04-10 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 10/04/2018 à 06:18, Felix Miata a écrit : Putting a disk from an Intel system into a system with AMD, VIA or GeForce chipset is almost certain to fail unless the initrd includes most drivers. This is the default (MODULES=most). This leads me to believe that a minimal module set initrd

Re: transfer disk

2018-04-10 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 10/04/2018 à 05:48, Ben Caradoc-Davies a écrit : On 10/04/18 14:01, mick crane wrote: Can you pop a hard disk that boots with a Debian installation on it into another entirely different PC and will the kernel try to make sense of its new hardware ? Mostly. I once had a disk that often

Re: transfer disk

2018-04-09 Thread mick crane
On 2018-04-10 04:48, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: On 10/04/18 14:01, mick crane wrote: hello, Can you pop a hard disk that boots with a Debian installation on it into another entirely different PC and will the kernel try to make sense of its new hardware ? mick Mostly. I once had a disk that

Re: transfer disk

2018-04-09 Thread Felix Miata
mick crane composed on 2018-04-10 03:01 (UTC+0100): > Can you pop a hard disk that boots with a Debian installation on it into > another entirely different PC and will the kernel try to make sense of > its new hardware ? IME, if the chipset and CPU are Intel, it doesn't matter how new or old,

Re: transfer disk

2018-04-09 Thread David Wright
On Tue 10 Apr 2018 at 03:01:56 (+0100), mick crane wrote: > Can you pop a hard disk that boots with a Debian installation on it > into another entirely different PC and will the kernel try to make > sense of its new hardware ? Yes, I used to build a system in one box and then install the drive in

Re: transfer disk

2018-04-09 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 10/04/18 14:01, mick crane wrote: hello, Can you pop a hard disk that boots with a Debian installation on it into another entirely different PC and will the kernel try to make sense of its new hardware ? mick Mostly. I once had a disk that often moved between a desktop and laptop. If

Re: transfer disk

2018-04-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 03:01:56AM +0100, mick crane wrote: > hello, > Can you pop a hard disk that boots with a Debian installation on it into > another entirely different PC and will the kernel try to make sense of its > new hardware ? > Sometimes "yes," sometimes "no". It depends on a variety

transfer disk

2018-04-09 Thread mick crane
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