Curtis Rey wrote:
it's like Ben said, change the setup of the kernel to the k_athlon.
Please excuse my Linux ignorance, but how do you tell whether you are using k_athlon or k_deflt? If you are using k_deflt, what are the steps for changing to k_athlon? I am running SuSE8.0 on an AMD Athlon XP 2200+, w/ Asus A7V333 mb. Thanks, Darrell Cormier
Also, I have done the same thing. Went from an Celeron/IBM base machine to a AMD/via board. I did update the kernel and basically booted the install disk and had it do an "update" only installed packages. My reasoning was to re-init/config the system without having to reinstall so that any differences to such things as I/O settings, etc..., would be update for the board. I had not data lose and it booted up no problems, properly configured for the most part. I just had to do a little tweaking and fine tuning (e.g video drivers and 3D settings). This way all my settings, preferences and all were left intact and I was up and running on the new board in no time. The k_deflt kernel is optimize for pentium chips/boards and with an AMD cpu/board it should run but isn't optimized and could be a bit cludgy.
HTH, Curtis.
On Sunday 05 January 2003 01:25, Tom Kostiainen wrote:
Hi,
Do I need to reinstall SuSE Linux after I've changed my CPU and motherboard? What's the easyest way to do this?
- tk