On 2007/07/18 11:18, Kevin Cheng wrote: > > if Intel to VIA then you are right that it's better to reinstall > whole thing. This works for 5 years since BSD 3.1
I don't know, OpenBSD is pretty resilient when moving from machine to machine (until you start playing with custom kernels). No KLM device drivers, no deep hardware-knowledge in the boot loader config. Pre-3.5, different BIOS ideas of faked CHS geometry caused more problems, but now biosboot(8) knows LBA it's pretty robust. > When we mount the same mirrored HDD from intel to a VIA, it stopped booting > on RealTek 8100 NIC chipset and reported as old message 8139 model of NIC. There are different versions of these (8100, 8101, 8139, 8139+) and it's not always obvious which you have until you boot them. re(4) picks up new ones (which should work better), rl(4) takes the old ones. You can make an image or fileset that works with any of various nic types - link hostname.re0 to hostname.rl0 and hostname.fxp0, use interface groups in hostname.* files, and use interface groups not names in pf.conf(5). I prefer siteXX.tgz to imaging though, it's easier to update and should be a quicker installation. With pxeboot(8), serial console and expect (or, ah, teraterm) or a custom installer (modified yaifo?) things can be largely automated.
