"Mikhail Kuzminsky" <k...@free.net> wrote: > I moved Western Digital SATA HDD w/SuSE 10.3 installed (on dual > Barcelona server) to dual Nehalem server (master HDD on Nehalem > server) with Supermicro X8DTi mobo.
Which means any number of drivers will have to change. The boot could only succeed if all of these new drivers are present in the distro AND the installation isn't hardwired to use information from the previous system. The first may be true, the second is almost certainly false. On Mandriva, and probably Red Hat, and maybe Suse, even cloning between "identical" systems requires that that the file: /etc/udev/rules.d/61-net_config.rules be removed before reboot as it holds a copy of the MAC from the previous system, and no two machines (should) have the same MAC even if they are otherwise identical. There are a lot of other files in the same directory which I believe hold similar machine specific information. Similarly, your /etc/modprobe.conf will almost certainly load modules which are not appropriate for the new system. If there is an /etc/sysconfig directory there may be files there that also hold machine specific information. The /etc/sensors.conf configuration will also certainly also be incorrect. And remember, this assumes the distro even has all the right pieces somewhere on the disk - which it may not. Perhaps you can successfully boot the system in safe mode and then run whatever configuration tool Suse provides to reset all of these hardware specific files? Otherwise, it might be easier to wipe the disk and do a clean install. Regards, David Mathog mat...@caltech.edu Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
