On 2/11/22 16:28, David Christensen wrote:
On 2/11/22 12:34, Thomas Anderson wrote:
Hello friends,
I was curious what would happen if I threw my server HDD, into an
entirely new system:
different motherboard, different CPU (Intel instead of AMD), Ram,
video card, everything.
I would like to upgrade my system, and ideal case, this would simply
work. I think I have done
it in the past, but with less variables. I have never done it with
EVERYTHING outside of the hard drive
being different.
Thanks.
If both machines are the same architecture (e.g. x64_64/amd64),
Correction x86_64/amd64.
both use
the same style firmware (e.g. BIOS or UEFI), and both are configured to
boot from the same partitioning scheme (e.g. MBR or GPT), the system
instance should boot and you should be able to log in from the console.
As other readers have noted, you may need to install/ configure/
reconfigure networking, graphics, sound, and/or other drivers; and
hypervisor optimizations may be different (if you are running virtual
machines).
David