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[Les Mikesell]

Tim wrote:

>> you can build the replacement on a different machine and swap it (or
>> the drives) into place when everything works 
> 
> That doesn't always work if the two machines have different enough
> hardware that the install creates a different initrd file.  Of course
> you can make a new initrd file.
> 
> Whichever method you take depends on your skillset and patience.

If you swap whole machines you don't have this issue.  If you swap disks 
from different hardware, the brute-force approach is to do an install on 
the destination box or identical hardware and use the /boot and 
/etc/modprobe.conf generated there with the rest of the system from your 
configured setup (making sure both are updated to the same kernel 
version).  If you go this route, the new setup can even be built under 
vmware.  There are less drastic ways to get a working initrd, but you 
have to know as much as anaconda does about hardware and I don't think 
much of that is well documented.

Is there an automated way to build a working initrd when running from a 
live CD that has detected the runtime hardware?

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com