I have a pretty old OpenBSD that's been running on a Soekris Net5501,
an AMD Geode LX single chip processor with CS5536 companion chip,
classified as a "586 class processor".
I have a new box, a Protectli with a dual core Intel Celeron 3865U.
I want to first move the existing OpenBSD system to the new box, then
after that's working, I can step through the upgrades to get current.
I naively thought I could move my OpenBSD from the old box to the new
by cloning the old disc (a camera flash card) onto the new disc (a
modern SSD). I cloned the discs and installed the new disc in the
new box. When I boot the new box, OpenBSD kernel panics, probably
because I switched it from a single-core AMD Geode to a dual-core
Intel Celeron.
Is there an easy way to fix this? I tried halting from the kernel
panic debugger and booting /bsd.rd and doing an 'upgrade' (thinking I
could 'upgrade' to the same version currently installed), but it says
there are no disks. I tried going into the /bsd.rd shell and
entering 'mount /dev/sd0a /mnt' but it says "Device not configured."
An 'ls /dev/sd*' shows the various partitions of /dev/sd0.
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Randall Gellens
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My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will,
never, never surrender to what is right.
--U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle, in a
speech to the Christian Coalition
