Re: New Motherboard Install

On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 09:20:57AM -0500, Don Maxwell wrote:
On 6/30/06, Randy Wyatt <rwwyatt01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Will you be changing the CPU? and do you use the generic kernel as
provided by redhat?
I have brought up redhat after a moterboard and CPU change just fine.
It only required a little modification. You will have to reconfigure
X after the system comes up so you may want to make sure that you
boot into runlevel 3.

Yes, the CPU will change but the good news is that I use the generic
kernel from FC5. No recompiles on this system.

It will work, almost certainly. Maybe you won't have the most optimal
system after the replacement (eg running a i586 kernel on a i686, or no
smp kernel (multiprocessor, also used dor hyperthreading and dual core
cpus).

Reconfiguring X does concern me a bit. It has been 5 yrs since I last
fiddled with such things. I am afraid that all the advances in Linux
installs with X configs that actually work has left me spoiled and
lazy! :-)
Not very hard, run system-config-display , which is essentially the same
utility that is used during fedora's installation.
If it doesn't run at all, remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf and rerun
system-config-display.


Very good point about booting into runlevel 3!

Thanks!

One thing that caused me problems in a similar situation was when the
old system had an onboard network controller, as well as a pci network
card, and the new hardware had just one network card. The boot sequence
was hanging forever trying to initialize the non-existent eth1. But that
was of course easy enough to fix from runlevel 1.

David Jansen

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