Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Hi - I am about to embark on a new adventure and am going to install/upgrade a new motherboard, with new processor, on-board graphics, and memory. (The old one is about 15 years old, dating back to the Pentium 2 core processor days.) I want to keep my OpenSuSE 15.4 x64 system and all the custom application configurations as is. Is there any hiccups or other roadblocks I should prep my system for, before doing this massive hardware change-over?
In my business, we rent a number of servers externally, I think we have a motherboard replaced about once a year. For us, the key thing is the MAC address(es) of the network interfaces in /etc/udev.d/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. Those rules determine the naming of your network interfaces, which is often critical to everything else. AFAIR, it is usually a good idea to also rebuild the initrd.
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