Re: New Hardware + old disks not recognized [SOLVED + lessons learned]

On Mon 24 Jun 2019 at 11:15:50 (-0700), Ross Boylan wrote: > LESSONS > 1. Don't ever get in this situation. It's a mess. > 2. If you're planning on moving to new hardware, ensure your initrd is > generated with MODULES=most BEFORE the move. > 3. Just because initramfs.conf has MODULES=most

Re: New Hardware + old disks not recognized [SOLVED + lessons learned]

Ross Boylan wrote: ... > LESSONS > 1. Don't ever get in this situation. It's a mess. > 2. If you're planning on moving to new hardware, ensure your initrd is > generated with MODULES=most BEFORE the move. > 3. Just because initramfs.conf has MODULES=most doesn't mean that's > what you get. In my

Re: New Hardware + old disks not recognized [SOLVED + lessons learned]

ORIGINAL PROBLEM Move disks into a new system (hardware) and found I couldn't boot into the old system (OS on the disk). The initrd couldn't even see the drives. CAUSE New hardware required drivers missing from the initrd, which had been created with MODULES=dep. Also, fstab referenced a drive