[SunRescue] Moving system disk between machines

[Taren]

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.

> 
> 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.
> > 
> > I initially thought this would be simple as the SunOS 5.7 kernel is
> > generic between kernel architectures (sun4c, sun4m etc.). Not so as
> > the boot program in /platform is only present for the kernel
> > architecture of the machine it installed was originally on (i.e.
> > my disc has sun4c present for the IPC, but lacks sun4m for the
> > SS10). Easily solved, boot from CD and copy the /platform/sun4m
> > stuff from CD to the system disk. Then I realised all the /devices
> > entries are wrong! I'm getting errors about keyboard not present
> > when booting now - I guess I need to boot from CD again and run
> > drvconfig using the -r rootdir option.
> > 
> > Is there a simple step-by-step way to move systems discs between
> > architectures, or even machines? I guess if I move the system disc
> > to a different sun4m machine (e.g. a SS5) all the device entries
> > will be wrong again - iommu at obio 0xe0000000 on the SS10,
> > at obio 0x10000000 on the SS5.
> > 
> > It actually seems more difficult to do this with SunOS 5.x than it
> > was with SunOS 4.x.
> > 
> > Thanks for any help.
> > 
> > 
> > Chris.
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