From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 2 9:11:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mostgraveconcern.com (mostgraveconcern.com [216.82.145.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBE5237BD0E for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 09:11:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Received: from danco (danco.mostgraveconcern.com [10.0.0.2]) by mostgraveconcern.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA34040 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 09:11:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Message-ID: <013701bfe440$37d04860$0200000a@danco> Reply-To: "Dan O'Connor" From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "freebsd-questions" Subject: Re: Upgrading Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 09:11:45 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I currently have a box running FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE. >I'd like to replace this machine, but want to avoid >having to reinstall and reconfigure everything. If I >remove the drive from the current machine and pop it >into the new one, should it boot and everything work >OK? > >I'd recompile the kernel when the operation was done, >assuming it all works. If the hardware on your new machine is compatible with FreeBSD, you should have no trouble booting the GENERIC kernel (Make a new GENERIC kernel if you didn't keep the original one around...) To load the GENERIC kernel, instead of your custom one, press any key other than Enter during boot and type: Ok unload Ok load /kernel.GENERIC Ok boot You should be up and running! --Dan -- Dan O'Connor On Matters of Most Grave Concern http://www.mostgraveconcern.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message