Opteron, Athlon/64, and disaster recovery

[chrism at imntv.com (Chris Mauritz)]

Benjamin Smith wrote:

>Has anybody here taken a HDD configured with an Opteron system, and then put 
>it into an Athlon/64 and had it work? 
>
>Are they interchangeable, like an Athlon/32 and a P3/P4? 
>
>-Ben 
>  
>

 From a processor standpoint, it should just work.  You may have driver 
issues because of the different motherboards, but assuming that both 
boards are using common components supported in the default kernel, you 
shouldn't have any problems with a switcheroo.

Cheers,