On Tue 10 Apr 2018 at 03:01:56 (+0100), mick crane wrote: > Can you pop a hard disk that boots with a Debian installation on it > into another entirely different PC and will the kernel try to make > sense of its new hardware ?
Yes, I used to build a system in one box and then install the drive in another. This was in the days before initramfs; now you should make sure you have MODULES=most in /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf when (re)making it. I can't speak for BIOS/UEFI differences as my only UEFI is a laptop. Cheers, David.