On 27 Sep 2024 at 19:05, Jeffrey Walton wrote: From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@xxxxxxxxx> Date sent: Fri, 27 Sep 2024 19:05:31 -0400 Subject: Move Fedora Server to new machine, RAID1 -> Single disk To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Send reply to: noloader@xxxxxxxxx, Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Hi Everyone, > > I have a Fedora Server running F40 on an old Proliant G5 with hardware > RAID1. The machine is giving too much trouble so I would like to > migrate to newer hardware with a single SSD. Both machines are x86_64. > > I've been researching methods to perform the migration, but I am not > clear on the strategy. Some folks say provide a method and say it > works, other folks say it does not work. I think I have hit > diminishing returns on reading from the web. > Seen this message and a number of replies. Some comments. I've been maintainer of G4L disk imaging program since 2004, so some things. With some hardware raid systems the OS doesn't see it as raid, since it only sees that the hardware shows it. So might only show as a single drive. Had a Novell server with Duplexed Drives and noted only 1 drive had boot loader installed, so one had to manually copy it to second drive. So, would handle a drive failure, but boot from drive might not work on next boot. Old Novell 2.2 machine long long ago. Another thing. Should proble create a new rescue kernel, since the regular kernels generally only include the current hardware files, so if hardware is real different, might not have required files to load. Moved a system from old ide drive to sata drive and regular kernel didn't load. Used rescue kernel, and it worked fine. Then just hard id reinstall kernal, and it corrected issue with default kernel. Good Luck. > I am planning on using Clonezilla to clone the image to a portable > drive, and then restore the image from the portable drive to the new > machine. I've had success with Clonezilla in the past, but I restored > to the same machine. > > Does anyone have experience with a migration like this? If so, can you > provide feedback? > > Jeff > -- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxx Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
