Re: Motherboard Change- will Fedora survive?

From: jludwig (wralphie_at_comcast.net)
Date: 04/26/04

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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:30:16 -0400

    On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 10:10, Jonathan Rawle wrote:
    > Gary Waters wrote:
    >
    > > Yes, this is a newbie question...sorry ;-)
    > >
    > > I presently have an ECS K7S5A motherboard with an SIS-735 chipset. I'm
    > > running an AMD XP2000+ CPU. I am considering upgrading to the ECS KT-600
    > > Motherboard with a VIA KT600 Chipset:
    > >
    > > http://www.ecsusa.com/products/af1lite.html
    > >
    > > The Board does have SATA ports, which I will not be using. I will more
    > > than likely upgrade to an XP2600+ or higher CPU.
    > > settings for
    > > My question is simple: will Fedora survive the transition and/or what
    > > should I expect in terms of results?
    > >
    >
    > I replaced my motherboard a while back, and the only problem was caused by
    > moving the hard disk to a different controller (hde to hda). As far as I
    > could see, there were no references to hde anywhere, yet the filesystem
    > check at boot was still looking for hde and thought there was a serious
    > disk error - it dropped to a root shell and refused to go further. In the
    > end, I had to comment out the relevant lines in rc.sysinit. After booting,
    > I put the lines back, and from then onwards it worked perfectly.
    >
    > I reported this in one of the newsgroups at the time, but no-one could
    > figure out why this problem occurred.
    >
    > Once that problem was solved, all other hardware was detected perfectly,
    > including graphics, sound, USB hubs, etc. So unless you are moving the hd,
    > it should be fine.
    >
    >
    > Jonathan
    Where I worked I had a 20GB drive I used to install in systems with
    RH9.0 to diagnose system problems, from PI, Pent Pros., Duron, Athlon,
    and on without any issues except 3D video cards.
    Go at it!
     --
    jludwig <wralphie@comcast.net> 

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