Re: [MLUG] new machine - just move HD?

[Dave Lloyd <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Sat, 3 Apr 2004, Mike Miller wrote:

> I own an old Sun Ultra 2 - dual 168 MHz and 640 MB RAM.  I bought a newer
> Sun Ultra 2 to replace it - dual 300 MHz and 1 GB RAM.  I was hoping I
> could just take the HD out of the old machine and put it into the new one.
> I made sure the NVRAM settings were the same (except for settings that
> ought to be different), but when I try to boot the new machine with the
> drive in there, it says it can't find the boot device.  If I run
> probe-scsi from the ok prompt, it does nothing.  Any clues?

Hmm.  I'm an IRIX person, but I'd say that the kernel doesn't have the
right scsi driver compiled into it.  Have you tried booting from CD and
then doing an autoconfig (or whatever that is on solaris)?

-- 
--dlloyd

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