Raspberry Pi 1 to 2

A bootable Linux HDD will often boot successfully in another PC (at least that worked back before the arrival of UEFI BIOSes - haven't tried it since), so suck it and see. It will either boot or not and is unlikely to damage the SD card either way.

If it fails, after setting up and booting off fresh SD card, you should be able to mount your old one in a USB card reader and copy /home onto your new card.

If you've been careful and put any new programs and associated data into /usr/local/, you can get all that stuff across too by copying /usr/local to the new disk because /usr/local/* is normally an empty directory tree on a freshly installed Linux.

I don't think so. Although Raspbian detects which processor is being used and loads the appropriate kernel, OSMC seems to require two separate images, one for a model B+ and another for Pi 2.

Another Dave

I think the Pi2 takes a smaller card. If your existing card is a microSD in an adapter, it should transfer. If not, you'll need to make a new card.

Yes...

Providing the card physically fits - ie. it's a micro SD in a full size SD carrier AND it has been updated to a relatively recent version of Raspbian (if that's what's underneath OSMC) It needs the update to fix a few things that are now controlled via the GPIO in the Pi 2 that weren't on the Pi 1.

Gordon

On the Raspian if you put a cloned card that has been used in another Pi, (or original) into different PI, it most likely will not recognise your network interface, The MAC address of the PI is fixed in the OS when booted originally.

To correct this, just delete /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

and reboot

It will then pickup the new MAC address and your netowrk should be seen.

Cobblers, I regularly move SD cards amongst my Pis; no problem wit networking whether DHCP or static. Furthermore, that file doesn't exist; at least on recent Raspbian.

Please check your facts before posting.

It worked for me using XBMC. I did simply clone the Pi1 SD card onto a Pi2 MicroSD card. However, I had to buy a new MPEG2 license.

YMMV

It takes very little extra effort to write something like "Actually that's no longer the case" rather than "Cobblers". Please check your attitude before posting.

The OP is running OSMC. The current OSMC installer asks you to choose between Pi 1 and Pi 2 images. It's one of the reasons I've home-brewed a Raspbian installation with Kodi and Tvheadend which IS portable between the two.

Another Dave

With Kodi I used a NOOBs image to install a Pi1 and Pi2 image plus a

---druck

I posted about this issue when I descovered it in April. Since then I always delete the above file if present, and also /lib/udev/write_net_rules