[SunRescue] Moving system disk between machines

[Bill Bradford]

On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 06:39:21PM -0700, Taren wrote:
> Anytime you change (add/remove) hardware from a system it's necessary to
> run boot -r (or if you want to use reboot, read the man page) so that the
> system can rebuild the correct devices.

You also have to use "installboot" to install the correct bootblock for
the new system on the drive.

Bill

> > It may be worth being really brave,  by installing the disk
> > booting 7 off of CD and telling it to do an upgrade but
> > preserving filesystems....
> > --Paul
> > On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 04:52:47PM +0100, Chris Powell wrote:
> > > All,
> > > I have a Solaris 7 system disk in a SPARCstation IPC which I want
> > > to move to a SPARCstation 10 (hey, I might get usable performance
> > > now!). I want to do this without re-installing Solaris.

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