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gen2arch

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Registered: 2013-05-16

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Putting a harddrive with a full arch installation into another machine

Hi I switched hardware from an intel broadwell/i5 based system to skylake/i7, both with intel integrated graphics.

I tried to use my old installation by simply putting the old harddisk with a full arch installation into the new machine: surprisingly it worked well.

Nevertheless: where would I have to make changes in the new system in order to secure a safe run of the OS, what would be the general course of action for such a migration?

Thanks.

graysky

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Re: Putting a harddrive with a full arch installation into another machine

Similar hardware is fine.  Just rebuild the kernel initramfs from a chroot.

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Scimmia

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Re: Putting a harddrive with a full arch installation into another machine

In general, boot the fallback initramfs then rebuild the standard initramfs, and change over any specific drivers you have (out of tree modules, xorg ddx, etc).

gen2arch

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Re: Putting a harddrive with a full arch installation into another machine

Thanks graysky and scimmia!

Sorry for the long delay, was travelling.

The one thing that didn't work immediately was an error with systemd-modules-load.service which wouldn't start at boot time.

Turned out I hat to reinstall  virtualbox-related packages to have this service started withour errors.

Thanks.