Thanks for the reply James,

 

> If it were my system, I'd export the ZFS volumes containing my data,
> reinstall on the new motherboard, and then reimport ZFS.

 

I was thinking that too, but unfortunately I've created quite a few zones and 
there are quite a few users on the system.

 

Redoing the entire server will take a week :(

 

Thanks though, I shall try driver-discuss too!

 

Em


 
> Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 08:14:39 -0400
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> CC: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [install-discuss] Installing on alternate hardware
> 
> Emily Grettel wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I currently have an installation of OpenSolaris 134 (upgraded from
> > 2009.06) on AMD hardware (ATI Chipset) that I want to change over to
> > using Intel hardware (Intel Chipset). Is there a way of reseting the
> > hardware detection so that I won't have to reinstall? Are there lots of
> > caveats in doing this?
> 
> If you're adventurous, a single line with "#path_to_inst_bootstrap_1" in
> the /etc/path_to_inst file is how the system is initially installed.
> That plus a well-placed "devfsadm -C" while running in the boot archive
> might do it.
> 
> But I think what you're really asking about here is how driver mappings
> relate to hardware, and that sounds like more of a driver-discuss
> question than an install question. You might want to ask over there as
> well.
> 
> If it were my system, I'd export the ZFS volumes containing my data,
> reinstall on the new motherboard, and then reimport ZFS.
> 
> -- 
> James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <[email protected]>
                                          
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