johnswolter@provide.net writes:
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.
I haven't actually done this sort of thing so treat the following as just a blather... :) I think the main issues, if any, are going to be in I/O area. Different motherboards may have different VGA controller chips, sound chips, ethernet chips, etc., and these may need to be reconfigured. If you normally boot to a KDE login screen, a different video chip may cause the screen to become invisible. So, you may need to boot into single-user mode (possibly also giving kernel parameters at the bootloader prompt to remove boot splash/reduce screen resolution) first and reconfigure XFree86 for the new chipset immediately after the board swap. You can then also at the same time run Yast (in text mode) to reconfigure all the other devices as needed. -Ti