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

[Tim Bell]

When you shut down your old system the final time:

   touch /reconfigure

will cause the a reconfiguration reboot ('boot -r') on the next boot up.

Good luck with your project.  I wish you had enough hardware on hand
to keep one system working while you were tinkering a second box.
That's the way I try to do it.  If I like the way something is
working, that becomes my primary system and I fool around on the other
system.

Regards-

Tim

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Robin Axelsson
<gu99roax at student.chalmers.se> wrote:
> 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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