> I some capacitors blew on my newer motherboard and I have an older one > installed if I install gentoo will it die when I recap my newer board > and put it back in? Suse did not die under these circumstances. > Thanks > John Coder >
Depends. Did you select the chipset support of your new motherboard in the kernel when you built it? This assumes the motherboards chipsets are different between the two motherboards. Why SuSE, RH, MDK, etc. don't die when you swap hardware is that they select nearly everything - kitchen sink included, when they build a kernel. Gentoo, as well as a few other, says - select just what you need. And build the kernel targeted to your system. So will it break? It depends on how you set it up. All you might need to do is build a new kernel with your current motherboard's chipset and your new motherboard's chipset in it, install it, boot up and, then just swap motherboards. Bob - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
