Re: Changing MB and CPU - reinstall of Fedora needed?
Christopher Svanefalk gmail.com> writes: > > > I will be moving from an AMD FX-8120 to an Intel i7 3930K, which of course means I will be changing my motherboard as well. All other relevant system components will stay the same (including the HDD and any data on it).I just wondered if Fedora can accomodate the new hardware directly, or if there are any procedures I should go through after booting again? Could a reinstall be needed? I am guessing I will not have a problem booting, since Grub is installed on the MBR of the drive, and I believe the new MB will search this first for a bootloader.Thanks in advance for all help! > -- Best, > Christopher Svanefalk > > > I pretty much do this every day. I have FC 16 installed on an external hard drive. I have a system at home and a system at work that are both set up to boot from an external drive. The work system has an Intel i3 CPU, Intel graphics, etc. The home system has an AMD Athlon CPU, ATI graphics, etc. Not sure about the sound hardware but the work system is from 2005 while the work system is recent so little likelihood it's the same. About the only part that's not transparent is I have to run xrandr after I startx to get things to display on the right monitors. Carrying the external hard drive between locations definitely beats lugging a system back and forth. Cheers, Dave -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Changing MB and CPU - reinstall of Fedora needed?
Christopher Svanefalk writes: I will be moving from an AMD FX-8120 to an Intel i7 3930K, which of course means I will be changing my motherboard as well. All other relevant system components will stay the same (including the HDD and any data on it). I just wondered if Fedora can accomodate the new hardware directly, or if there are any procedures I should go through after booting again? Could a reinstall be needed? I am guessing I will not have a problem booting, since Grub is installed on the MBR of the drive, and I believe the new MB will search this first for a bootloader. The situations where anything really needs to be done, are extremely rare. 99% of the time, the kernel will boot just fine. The only likely confusion would be post-boot, with network interfaces changing. Perhaps audio will get confused. I did something like this ~10 years ago, or so. While Windows was utterly baffled by the experience, Linux just yawned as if nothing out of the ordinarily happened. Would be surprised if it's any different now. The only good thing to have is a rescue disk, so you can boot into rescue mode, and be able to chroot and rebuild your initrd easily, in the very unlikely event that will be necessary. pgpbe0TRgFfKT.pgp Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Changing MB and CPU - reinstall of Fedora needed?
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:55:57 +0200 Roberto Ragusa wrote: > All the rest will probably just work or be trivial to fix. Yea. I was shocked when I moved my system disk from an AMD system with a Radeon video card to an Intel i7 system with the native Intel HD graphics and it booted right up. I was certainly prepared to reinstall, but I didn't have to. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Changing MB and CPU - reinstall of Fedora needed?
On 06/11/2012 08:57 PM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > I will be moving from an AMD FX-8120 to an Intel i7 3930K, which of course > means I will be changing my motherboard as well. All other relevant system > components will stay the same (including the HDD and any data on it). > > I just wondered if Fedora can accomodate the new hardware directly, or if > there are any procedures I should go through after booting again? Could a > reinstall be needed? I am guessing I will not have a problem booting, since > Grub is installed on the MBR of the drive, and I believe the new MB will > search this first for a bootloader. > > Thanks in advance for all help! You may have to tweak the network configuration, as it could be bound to the ethernet MAC address. All the rest will probably just work or be trivial to fix. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragusa.it -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: Changing MB and CPU - reinstall of Fedora needed?
Quoting Christopher Svanefalk : I will be moving from an AMD FX-8120 to an Intel i7 3930K, which of course means I will be changing my motherboard as well. All other relevant system components will stay the same (including the HDD and any data on it). I just wondered if Fedora can accomodate the new hardware directly, or if there are any procedures I should go through after booting again? Could a reinstall be needed? I am guessing I will not have a problem booting, since Grub is installed on the MBR of the drive, and I believe the new MB will search this first for a bootloader. Thanks in advance for all help! you HAVE got a current full backup haven't you? and if you do I'd say have a go at it, Fedora has been very resilient for me. Dave -- Best, Christopher Svanefalk -- It is told that such are the aerodynamics and wing loading of the bumblebee that, in principle, it cannot fly...if all this be true...life among bumblebees must bear a remarkable resemblance to life in the United States. -- John Kenneth Galbraith, in American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Changing MB and CPU - reinstall of Fedora needed?
I will be moving from an AMD FX-8120 to an Intel i7 3930K, which of course means I will be changing my motherboard as well. All other relevant system components will stay the same (including the HDD and any data on it). I just wondered if Fedora can accomodate the new hardware directly, or if there are any procedures I should go through after booting again? Could a reinstall be needed? I am guessing I will not have a problem booting, since Grub is installed on the MBR of the drive, and I believe the new MB will search this first for a bootloader. Thanks in advance for all help! -- Best, Christopher Svanefalk -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
