[Tfug] Upgrade motherboard and processor without OS reinstall?

[Ammon Lauritzen]

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Glen Pfeiffer wrote:
> I have searched and found conflicting information regarding
> whether or not I can upgrade my motherboard and processor without
> reinstalling my OS. Here are the specs:
> 
> Board:     MSI KM2M Combo L
> Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2100+
> OS:        Debian Etch (standard i386 kernel)
> 
> So, what do you think? Can I upgrade without reinstalling? Are
> there any limitations? One piece of info I found said that if I
> stick with the same northbridge, I can probably do it.

So long as you're already using a generic kernel, and so long as your
new hardware is supported by it, you _should_ be fine. I've done it
several times.

However, once you get into running custom kernels... my experience says
that it almost never works. But a stock i386 kernel copied direct from
the install cd? Yeah, those've never given me problems.

Ammon
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