[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to replace a motherboard without reinstalling OpenIndiana

[Robin Axelsson]

Well, last time I replaced the motherboard, the operating system 
(OpenSolaris b134) froze upon boot. I replaced a Gigabyte 
GA-MA790FXT-UD5P with my current motherboard (MSI 790FX-GD70). It froze 
with the boot splash and I resolved the issue by reinstalling opensolaris.

In this swap, there won't be two Realtek RTL8111DL NIC's, instead there 
will be one Intel EXPI9400PT and one Realtek RTL8111E. There will also 
not be the AMD790FX chipset but an AMD990FX chipset. So I'm really 
curious as to how OI will handle this.

It will most likely freeze upon boot or if I'm lucky boot up with only 
one ethernet port.

On 2011-09-10 16:23, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
>> I wonder how I can make an existing installation of OI work on a new
>> motherboard. From my past experience the operating system stopped
>> working when I replaced the motherboard so I had to reinstall it. I
>> think the reason why is because the new motherboard have different IRQ
>> mappings even though they had a lot of the hardware in common, which
>> results in the drivers not finding the hardware on the new
>> motherboard.
> In mu experience, the only family of operating systems tying its installation so tightly to the current hardware, is Windows. Most unices autodetect hardware on bootup and should work well even if installed on a 10 year old Pentium.
>
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