How portable are Pi SD cards between Pi generations? I have a current OpenMediavault system using a Pi4, system on SD card, and data on a USB RAID disk pair. I have a spare Pi5. If I clone the SD card, will it boot the Pi5, retaining the OMV system, and recognise the USB disk data?
I realise it would have different MAC address and I’d need to sort IP access. Anything else needing to change?
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Marco Moock
Am 13.06.26 um 09:16 schrieb Paul Hardy:
Depends on the OS. Which one do you have?
DHCPv6 DUID might also be an issue if you use that for static assignments.
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Paul Hardy
It’s OpenMediaVault 8.3.1-3 (Synchrony), which is based on Debian 13 (Trixie).
Not knowingly. I’m largely IP v4 here.
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druck
It wont boot on the Pi 5 unless you were already using a 64 bit variant of the OS on the Pi 4.
With Raspbian up to the Pi 5 you could use the same card on any Pi as long as it had been upgraded to have a suitable kernel for each of the different generations, as the userland was compatible with all 32 bit chips.
However the Pi5 does not support 32 bit privileged modes, so you have to upgrade the OS, although it can still run 32 bit userland programs.
As you'll be installing a fresh OS, pretty much everything will change except your data.
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Paul Hardy
OpenMediaVault has only supported 64 bit ARM for several years now, so that’s not a problem.
I’ll wait until the current flurry of updates passes (presumably from AI pen-testing) and then try doing the move.
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It's always going to be Raspbian to me, a much better name, and it's still the best term to search for.
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