Re: RAID 1 on a server with possible mad mobo

[Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>]

Colin McDonald wrote:

> Without taking up to much of y'alls time, what would be the best
> solution for moving the RAID array over to a new box?

> 2. Try to boot off of the disks after they have been transferred into
> the new machine? I know this will cause all kinds of problems with
> kernel/devices, etc and probably won't work.

Actually, I've done this a couple of times with both Red Hat and SUSE 
and it's worked surprisingly well. With the kernel being mostly modular 
and the hardware detection/configuration utilities being pretty advanced 
these days, it's not much of a problem. (I had a minor issue with SUSE 
doing this sort of thing because the MAC address of the NIC was 
different, so the network stuff was not getting configured. On Red Hat 
[and hopefully Fedora is still the same] you should get prompted at 
bootup if there is any hardware to add or remove.)

Especially if you're wanting to keep the system configuration exactly 
the same, this may be the way to go, rather than trying to reconfigure 
everything exactly the way you had it before.

And of course if, after booting the new system with the old disks, you 
find that things are not quite right, you can always re-install at that 
point...

--
Paul