Re: [SOLVED] Re: Migrating Debian installation to a new motherboard
On Thu 01 Nov 2018 at 19:21:24 +0100, local10 wrote:
> Nov 1, 2018, 1:57 PM by mstone@debian.org:
>
> > On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 05:43:56PM +0100, local10 wrote:
> >
> > That means it's down. Note that you said enp3so above, that should be enp3s0 (zero); which did you put in interfaces? Also, there should be either "auto enp3s0" or "allow-hotplug enp3s0". Assuming that's all right, try manually running "ifup -v enp3s0".
> >
>
> That was it. I did have "allow-hotplug" but it was still pointing to
> enp2s0, not paying attention obviously. After changing "allow-hotplug
> enp3s0" the network came back, everything works.
>
> So my experience indicates that it is quite possible to replace the
> motherboard, stick the old hard disk in and the only change that's
> required (in my case) was to change "/etc/network/interfaces" to
> reflect the new interface name from enp2s0 to enp3s0 . No need to
> change NIC MAC address.
>
> Thanks to everyone who responded.
I've done that myself - changing a parameter on one line but not on
another. Well done for listening to and exploring the advice you were
given.
--
Brian.
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