Migrating drives from pe850 to sc1435

[Harald_Jensas at Dell.com]

Hi,

Adding the SATA driver for 1435 to the initrd before moving the drives to the 1435 should do the trick.


Regards
Harald Jensås

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-
> bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of David Hubbard
> Sent: 19 May 2008 22:50
> To: linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: Migrating drives from pe850 to sc1435
> 
> Anyone moved drives from an 850 to 1435?  I'm not
> sure how to accomplish that without breaking the boot
> since the sata drivers are different between the
> servers.  Updating modprobe.conf doesn't appear to
> be enough since it can't get to the point of reading
> the drive for kudzu to come along and fix things.
> Is there some manipulation of grub, initrd, etc. that
> I can do to make it boot and detect the new controller?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> David
> 
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