Corey wrote:
> How robust is linux when it comes to changing the motherboard on an existing
> ( installed ) box? We need to up the ram on our server, but the current
> mainboard won't accommodate the necessary upgrade, so we are close to just
> changing it out with another similar board that can.
>
> Will any changes in the hardware of the mainboard ( chipset, pci ids, i/o,
> etc, etc ) to a system which has been up and running cause any sort of
> difficult or random problems when the box comes back up with a new board?
>
> Any thing we need to be aware of w/ CentOS in particular?
I've done this before and it worked pretty well. The kernel booted up,
detected all the new hardware and there were no major problems.
You just have to make sure that if you use the onboard sound/video/lan,
that all of it needs to be supported in Linux.
--Ajay
