changing motherboards

[Scot L. Harris]

On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 20:59, david smethurst wrote:
> hi all
> i am changing motherboards and cpu
> i want to keep my current load on the hard drive.
> can do a repair on it to pick up the chipsets on the board?
> both are 64bit boards and its fc3-64
> hard drive is sata and that will be the only thing which will be the
> same.
> any ideas?
> thanks
> david

As long as you are using motherboards with the same CPU architecture it
will work.  Have swapped harddrives like that previously on systems with
different brand motherboards but same family of CPUs.  When the system
boots it will discover the new hardware for new chipsets for
USB/video/sound/etc. and give you the option to remove configurations
for the old chipsets.  

I was really impressed at how easy the process was.


If you are changing CPU types (AMD to Intel or the other way around)
that is a bigger problem.  Believe there was discussion about doing
something like that on this list last year.  You might be able to do
that if before you shutdown the first machine you load the kernel
version for the new CPU and modify the grub settings.  But that is just
a guess and may not work.

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