I have personally done g1(3.5" scsi) -> g5(2.5" sas) (initrd rebuild to use the correct drivers + dd to clone onto a SAN disk, boot up new machine on livecd and dd back to the local disk). And done many g5/g6/g7/g8/g9/g10 to various different models (generally dd/clone to san disk and on new machine livecd boot and dd disk image on san back to local disk). The biggest key step is changing the dracut hostonly= option to no, so that the initramfs has ALL reasonable disk drivers in it, otherwise the new and old machine must use the same disk controller type/linux driver. Once that is done doing a clone/dd to another disk should work to boot, assuming the bios in the old and new machine both support legacy boot. On Fri, Sep 27, 2024 at 6:06 PM Jeffrey Walton <noloader@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. > > 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 -- _______________________________________________ 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
