Re: new hardware
- From: David Bolt <blacklist-me@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 23:50:54 +0000
Okay, this thread is almost a month old but, just in case someone likes
to go Googling in the future, here's a little more information.
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Claude Hopper wrote:-
bob wrote:
Im about to install a new motherboard and CPU. Ok last time I did this was
good old suse ver 9. Ended having to do a full install.. reallt irratating
because I had just got all my programs running well in the os. Now running
suse 10.3..is there an easy way to preform the upgrade without having to do
a full re install?
ty bob
You don't really expect to boot up your current configuration on a new
and different chip set do you? A clean install is the best way to get
into new hardware.
Not always. I've just had to replace another systems motherboard and,
this time, moved from a two Athlon MP based board to one with a dual
core AMD X2 5200+ CPU. At the same time I lost an IDE channel, which
meant I lost a CD writer and a 160GB drive as it appears new boards now
only have a single IDE channel. I also "lost" three PCI slots but gained
onboard audio, ethernet, and four SATA ports, so overall there was
really no loss. Of the cards that were in the old system, only one other
card didn't get reused, and that was an unused Firewire card. The only
card that did get transferred was the TV capture card.
As for booting, that system is a dual-boot with Windows XP and openSUSE
10.3. As I expected, Windows didn't work. It blue-screened and rebooted
very rapidly, and so needed an "upgrade" install over the top of the old
install to get that up and running. Surprisingly, the expected
destruction of the grub boot-loader never happened. As to where the
Windows installer wrote its boot code, I don't know. I haven't looked a
the other discs to see what MBR was changed.
Booting Linux, on the other hand, was much more surprising.
The old system was based on a VIA chipset, while the new system has the
nVidia MCP61 chipset, and so I didn't expect it to boot. Initially, I
started up using safe mode in run-level 1 and was quite surprised when
it got to the login prompt with only a few problems.
The were five main issues with changing the board:
1, two of the drives on one of the SATA cards moved location from sdb
and sdc to sde and sdf. Not a problem, and a quick edit of /etc/fstab
solved that.
2, The network card needed configuring and the old 3com card was now
replaced by the onboard ethernet. That took about a minute to do and,
afterwards, virtually everything was as it was before.
3, the graphics card was changed from an old FX5200 to a newer GF8400GS.
I used sax2 to redo the configuration but needed to install the nVidia
drivers because the open-source drivers wouldn't work above
1280x1024x16. After adding the nVidia drivers and using sax2 again, I
was able to go back to 1680x1050x24.
4, when upgrading the motherboard, I also upgraded the memory going from
2.75GB to 4GB. The kernel used was the 32bit SMP kernel and I needed to
change that to the BIGSMP kernel to have access to the memory above 3GB.
5, at the moment there the sound doesn't work. While the sound modules
are loaded, and they supposedly work with that chipset, there is not a
murmur to me made. YaST doesn't list a module for the MCP61, although it
does list the MCP51, which also doesn't work. After looking about for
information I found that a thread on the nvnews forum which stated sound
should work with kernel 2.6.20, but doesn't seem to work with the 2.6.22
kernel supplied by SUSE/Novell. Using the kubuntu 8.04 live CD, which
has a 2.6.24 kernel, did result in sound being produced, so it looks
like I'll need to upgrade the kernel to at least that version for it to
work.
So, so far, almost everything is working with minimal hassle. The only
thing that remains is for me to check whether the sound works with the
11.1RC1 live CD, and if it also supports the new graphics card. If it
does support both, I'll start thinking about performing a fresh install,
the first one it will have had since SuSE 9.1, as that would be the only
way to take it from a 32bit to a 64bit system.
Regards,
David Bolt
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