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

[Robin Axelsson]

I have not yet swapped the motherboard but I will give that a try, 
thanks for the suggestion! I checked the man pages for 'boot' and 
interestingly I could not find anything on the '-r' flag. I hope that OI 
has improved in this area since b134 of Opensolaris and is more 
'forgiving' with the hardware swap.

But in the event of a freeze during boot, how can I temporarily force OI 
to boot into a minimalized mode (without probing for hardware; 
single-user mode?) so that I can issue said 'boot -r' command?

On 2011-09-10 17:55, Gordon Ross wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Robin Axelsson
> <gu99roax at student.chalmers.se>  wrote:
>> The problem is that the hardware on the new motherboard will most likely be
>> located on PCI addresses that are different from the old one (with the
>> possible exception of the GPU and the NB). From my experience, the installed
>> drivers on OI will not be happy about it so my question is how can I
>> reconfigure the drivers so that they use the pci addresses on the new
>> motherboard?
> Did you try "boot -r" (reconfigure)?
>
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