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

[Robin Axelsson]

I also wish I had that but thankfully using snapshots goes a long way 
... Thanks a lot for your suggestion, I will try that when it's time for 
the replacement.

Regards
Robin.


On 2011-09-10 18:21, Tim Bell wrote:
> 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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