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

[Jesus Cea]

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On 10/09/11 17:00, Robin Axelsson wrote:
> 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.

I am unexperienced with OpenIndiana, but when Solaris boots a new
hardware, you must do a "touch /reconfigure" first, to force a
hardware re-analisis at boot time.

If you already did the hardware change and the system crashes at boot,
boot from a LiveCD, import the "zpool", do the "touch
ROOT_PATH_ZPOOL/reconfigure" and reboot.

Good luck.

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