On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 3:41 PM Roger Heflin <rogerhef...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have personally done g1(3.5" scsi) -> g5(2.5" sas) (initrd rebuild > to use the correct drivers + dd to clone onto a SAN disk, boot up new > machine on livecd and dd back to the local disk). > > And done many g5/g6/g7/g8/g9/g10 to various different models > (generally dd/clone to san disk and on new machine livecd boot and dd > disk image on san back to local disk).
Thanks. This sounds interesting. > The biggest key step is changing the dracut hostonly= option to no, > so that the initramfs has ALL reasonable disk drivers in it, otherwise > the new and old machine must use the same disk controller type/linux > driver. > > Once that is done doing a clone/dd to another disk should work to > boot, assuming the bios in the old and new machine both support legacy > boot. Ok, thanks. Jeff -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
