Just a few days ago I got my hands on a new motherboard to migrate the
system to; Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD7 rev 1.1. It turned out that the
motherboard refused to post whenever a memory module is inserted in slot
DDR3_3. I thought at first that this was a hardware defect but after
flashing the
I also wish I had that but thankfully using snapshots goes a long way
... Thanks a lot for your suggestion, I will try that when it's time for
the replacement.
Regards
Robin.
On 2011-09-10 18:21, Tim Bell wrote:
When you shut down your old system the final time:
touch /reconfigure
That was an interesting link. I wonder if these steps really are
necessary. It sure doesn't hurt to make a backup copy of
/etc/path_to_inst but creating an empty reconfigure file at the root
seems to be enough.
To describe the instructions in the bug-report in words:
(preparatory steps)
1.
I'm not sure why all these steps would be necessary as they should be taken
care of automatically when forcing a reconfigure in first place.
Thanks for your post!
First there is no reason to repeat the steps. And no reconfigure does not
work.In fact, the system will not be able to boot.
Axelssongu99r...@student.chalmers.se
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Sent: Friday, September 9, 2011 6:30:10 PM
Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to replace a motherboard without
reinstalling OpenIndiana
Hi,
I wonder how I can make an existing installation of OI work
I wonder how I can make an existing installation of OI work on a new
motherboard. From my past experience the operating system stopped
working when I replaced the motherboard so I had to reinstall it. I
think the reason why is because the new motherboard have different IRQ
mappings even
Well, last time I replaced the motherboard, the operating system
(OpenSolaris b134) froze upon boot. I replaced a Gigabyte
GA-MA790FXT-UD5P with my current motherboard (MSI 790FX-GD70). It froze
with the boot splash and I resolved the issue by reinstalling opensolaris.
In this swap, there
On 10/09/2011 10:24 AM, Robin Axelsson wrote:
The problem is that the hardware on the new motherboard will most
likely be located on PCI addresses that are different from the old one
(with the possible exception of the GPU and the NB). From my
experience, the installed drivers on OI will not
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Robin Axelsson
gu99r...@student.chalmers.se wrote:
The problem is that the hardware on the new motherboard will most likely be
located on PCI addresses that are different from the old one (with the
possible exception of the GPU and the NB). From my experience,
I have not yet swapped the motherboard but I will give that a try,
thanks for the suggestion! I checked the man pages for 'boot' and
interestingly I could not find anything on the '-r' flag. I hope that OI
has improved in this area since b134 of Opensolaris and is more
'forgiving' with the
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On 10/09/11 17:00, Robin Axelsson wrote:
Well, last time I replaced the motherboard, the operating system
(OpenSolaris b134) froze upon boot. I replaced a Gigabyte
GA-MA790FXT-UD5P with my current motherboard (MSI 790FX-GD70). It
froze with the
Please have a look at
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.solaris.solarisx86/35322
I had the same problem and the process described in
https://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=5785
solved my problem.
A.S.
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Apostolos Syropoulos
Xanthi, Greece
Hi,
I wonder how I can make an existing installation of OI work on a new
motherboard. From my past experience the operating system stopped
working when I replaced the motherboard so I had to reinstall it. I
think the reason why is because the new motherboard have different IRQ
mappings even
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Hi,
I wonder how I can
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