On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 19:12, loyal_barber <loyal_barber@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have a system running CentOS 5.4. I needed to upgrade the memory but
> alas, it only has the 2 slots which are already full. I picked up
> a motherboard cheap that works with my ancient Quad Core AMD processor
> but instead of nVidia chipset it is an AMD chipset. That means
> the entirety of disk drivers, video drivers, etc will be different.
> I would like to hear of anyone has done this without starting fresh
> and what the gotchas are besides the obvious back everything up.
OMG!!! DOOOOOOOM!!!!! Format and Reinstall!!!!!
Ok, just yankin' yer chain, Loyal.
As was said in another reply to this thread, you should be ok. Of
course, you already stated the obvious... BACK UP EVERYTHING
IMPORTANT!.
The reply was basically correct. When you boot with the new board,
the new hardware should be detected and the correct modules should
load. Now, where you MAY run into problems is with the disks... I
don't know how many drives you have, nor if they are SATA or IDE...
BUT, if you, say, take the disk that's plugged into your existing SATA
channel 0 and accidentally plug it in to Channel 2 on the new board,
you COULD see some issues booting. In theory, I believe the use of
UUIDs to identify partitions should take care of that, but it is
something to be on the look out for.
But driver wise, as Jefferson says, you should, in theory at least, be ok.
The only other gotcha I can think off off the top of my head is
perhaps video being weird, or sound not working right, or networking
not functioning correctly due to odd hardware or something,
but the chances are good you should be able to at least boot the
system and sort that all out later.
Good luck with this Loyal, it'll be interesting to see how smoothly
this goes for you.
Cheers
Jeff
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