On 25/05/10 16:58, Jan de Groot wrote:
Linux is not Windows, so you'll get away with it. You could put the harddisk in your new system and boot the new system with the fallback kernel option which includes an initramfs image with all drivers. You'll probably have to reconfigure X then. After booting the fallback kernel, it's advised to regenerate your initramfs images using mkinitcpio, or by just reinstalling kernel26. My Archlinux installation survived multiple mainboards and harddisks, it's years old by now.
This. Boot the fallback kernel and adjust stuff (/etc/rc.conf, Xorg's settings, etc) as necessary.
I did the same last month when I changed the motherboard, processor and RAM in my system and went from an Intel rig to AMD. Then I only had to replace the acpi-cpufreq entry in the MODULES array in /etc/rc.conf with powernow-k8 to get frequency scaling to work with the new processor and install the driver for the ATi Radeon integrated graphics (which replaced an NVIDIA card).
Should be easy and straightforward. :)
