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John, On Tuesday 10 August 2004 21:54, johnswolter@provide.net wrote:
I need to change the System Mainboard in an operational Athlon based SUSE LINUX 9.1 system. The new board used the same CPU but a different chipset. I'm wondering how I would be sure the replacement Mainboard is correctly adapted to the SUSE LINUX 9.1.
I've not made such a hardware switch previously except to completely reinstall SUSE LINUX. I imagine this issue will arise the next time a system Mainboard fails. The SUSE install has an update option but it is not clear from the administrator's manual if that is intended to cover a Mainboard replacement situation.
Thanks ahead of time for any light you may shed on this issue.
I recently did just this: New motherboard, new CPU everything else unchanged. As others have stated, Linux just adapts. The first time you log in, you'll be notified that new hardware was detected and asked if you want it to be configured. Say "yes," of course. There can be several such notifications (USB, Ethernet, sound, on-board disk controllers, etc.) There is one exception to this, that I'm aware of: If you've created a custom kernel that is not as generic as the ones included in the distribution, you may not be able to use it to boot the new system. This is most likely to happen if what you customized in the kernel and then changed in the system is the CPU type. Also, as someone else mentioned, if the graphics / video hardware changed, then you'll likely see a stock-sized (is that 640x480 or 600x400?) screen resolution until you can configure the video parameters for the new card or chip. If you're using the "lm_sensors" package, you'll need to re-run "sensors-detect" and allow it to create a new sensor configuration. This is an interactive process (but not a GUI), so just answer the questions to the best of your ability. Defaults are probably fine. Good luck. You probably won't even need much!
John S. Wolter mailto:johnswolter@wolterworks.com
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