Yes, this should be quite doable. The procedure should the same as is used quite commonly to move from 1 hardware platform to another.
This is the procedure I used, it was posted on the Yahoo x86 group a long time back. I don't remember who it was, so can't give appropriate credit... Procedure: 1. Take a backup. Rince and repeat. Take another backup as well. 2. change hardware 3. Boot failsafe single user on new hardware - normally your root disk gets mounted as /a doing this. 4. Replace /a/etc/path_to_inst with the failsafe /etc/path_to_inst (should be a single stub line) 5. Remove the physical devices from /a/devices i.e the [EMAIL PROTECTED] paths (rm -rf). Dont touch any pseudo or others you are unsure of. 6. do an rm /dev/dsk/*, /dev/rdsk/* to get rid of the old entries 7. run devfsadm to fix up the device config from scratch: # devfsadm -r /a 8. Check that the entries in /a/devices and /a/etc/path_to_inst are now populated. If not, use tar to copy the failsafe device tree in place and run step 7 again i.e # cd /devices; tar cvf -|(cd /a/devices; tar xf -) 9. Check /a/dev/dsk - make sure you have disks. 10. edit /a/boot/solaris/bootenv.rc - fix your boot-device path 11. Check no disk names have changed - if they have, fix /etc/vfstab 12. Run "bootadm update-archive -R /a" to repack your boot archive. You should now be able to boot off the disk as if it always lived on your system. this is really just a modification of an old procedure for SPARC systems to re-order controller numbers. There is probably an Infodoc on it somewhere. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ xen-discuss mailing list [email protected]
