On Wed, January 17, 2018 12:44 am, Randall Gellens wrote: > 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. > > -- > Randall Gellens > -------------- Randomly-selected tag: --------------- > 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 > >
I would do a new install from ISO on the new board + rsync. assuming no custom binaries are on the old board. cheers. -- x9p | PGP : 0x03B50AF5EA4C8D80 / 5135 92C1 AD36 5293 2BDF DDCC 0DFA 74AE 1524 E7EE "I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring." - David Bowie
