New processor requires the full re-installation of Fedora?

Andy Green andy at warmcat.com
Mon Aug 14 12:26:43 UTC 2006


tomhorsley at adelphia.net wrote:

> If the new motherboard requires any new kernel modules you may not be able
> to boot the old kernel because the required modules are missing from the

It's a good point -- for example if you move to a motherboard with SATA 
where the old one didn't have it you'll run into this problem.

There's a script called mkinitrd that can update your initrd to include 
whatever modules you need, you can run this in rescue mode.

But you should try boot from your old discs first, unless you have an 
unusual disc controller it should just work, and nothing is lost if it 
doesn't.

-Andy
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