Re: i386 Installer questions: MBR slices, ext2fs root, bootblock location

[Steve Rikli <sr%genyosha.net@localhost>]

On Wed, Nov 04, 2026 at 03:13:03PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Nutchanon Wetchasit <xwindows%xwindows.in.th@localhost> writes:
> 
> >     I.e. if I installed NetBSD on one (NetBSD-compatible) computer
> >     in a usual way, then unplug its hard disk and move it
> >     to another (NetBSD-compatible) computer of the same CPU architecture
> >     but different brand of mainboards and peripheral cards;
> >     would the moved NetBSD instance still boot and use the new hardware
> >     automatically? [3]
> 
> Yes, if an install would have succeeded on the new one.
> [more later unless somebody else answers]

One thing I would add (I'm sure gdt@ knows this) is in the area of
peripheral cards.

E.g. if one system has an Intel NIC and the other has Broadcom,
depending on how you've configured the network settings, you may need
to adjust the network config from wm0 to bge0 or some similar change.

I have done this sort of sysdisk migration in the past, and aside
from updating /etc/rc.conf and/or /etc/ifconfig.if for the different
device name, it worked fine.

Cheers,
sr.