[COMP] Re: changing motherboards => reinstall?

On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 11:31:56AM +0200, Bruno Van de Casteele wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
[ broken mb ]

> So, any thoughts about that? How "sensitive" is linux about this?

Linux doesnt really care about which mb you stick under its nose, as long as
it can recognise the chipsets, cpu, mem, bridges etc.

If you install a default kernel from the major distributions, you will be
generally ok if you stick in a new motherboard. If you choose to install a
self-made kernel with stripped down options to save memory space, you might
have a problem.. If you compiled the kernel without PCI support for instance,
and stick in a new PCI board, the pci hardware will not be recognised, unless
you recompile (I found that out the hard way).

In general: Linux doesnt care, as long as it has the device drivers for the
hardware, which is present if you dont fiddle around too much =)

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