On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 15:46:50 -0400, Curtis wrote in message
<20250423154650.6ce92687@???>:
> On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 21:41:54 -0700
> Gregory Nowak <greg@???> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 09:35:54PM -0700, Gregory Nowak via Dng
> > wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 07:21:12PM -0500, Curtis Maurand wrote:
> > >
> > > > What's the chance of this thing booting without re-installing
> > > > Daedalus? It's not the end of the world if I have to install a
> > > > fresh copy and import the virtual machines. I'm curious if
> > > > things are plug and play enough to be successful on the first
> > > > try. This is a project that will happen in the next few weeks
> > > > to a month. AMD microcode is installed on all the machines
> > > > including the kvm's.
> > >
> > > I'd say the chance of Daedalus coming up on first boot on the
> > > other hardware is high. Unless you've compiled your own kernel,
> > > or highly customized your initramfs, it shouldn't be a problem.
> > > GNU/Linux isn't windows.
> >
> > If you have ethernet device names assigned by udev rules, you will
> > need to adjust those once you boot up, but there shouldn't be major
> > issues.
> >
> > Greg
> >
> It's a long story as to why it took this long to get this board
> installed. This project has been the bane of my existence. I installed
> the new motherboard, yesterday. I ran out of time and I couldn't
> complete the set up of the m.2 nvme drive. Linux sees it, though and I
> can access it. In order to boot from it, I'll need to repartition the
> drive to a GPT partition table and set it up for UEFI boot and install
> grub on it. (don't get me started on UEFI).
..oh the plague.
..why not boot from a known good boot-up device and then simply point
grub or the kernel to the new device? Worst case might have you
chainload grub on the new device from grub on the known good boot-up
device. If boot-up time is a worry, cut down on the time-out timing.
> Anyway, it's a XFS
> filesystem so I'll be able to move all the files with xfsdump. It's
> not the end of the world. All in all, we're in pretty good shape.
>
> However, I set the proper existing SSD for booting and it booted
> flawlessly.
>
> Thank you, everyone, for your helpful suggestions all is well.
>
> Thanks again,
> Curtis
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