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 <[email protected]>wrote: > 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: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >
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