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

[Jason Youngquist <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mike,

Not sure how to swap out the hard drive and put it in the new machine.

Several years ago I wanted to change the root filesystem of the sun I was
working on...ie transfer it to a bigger hard drive....Here's the
instructions that I used.

NOTE: This was way back in the 2.6 days, so things might have changed.

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=sun-managers&m=90222789133327&w=2

Here's a great "sun managers" listserv to subscribe to.

http://www.sunmanagers.org/

--Jason


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?
>
> Mike
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