Hello, Corey.
I personnally have a good experience regarding the compatibility with other
mainboards, graphic cards, sound cards, etc..
I have done that without any problems. Kudzu will take care of it. You will
just need to choose 'ok' each time it will ask you for a hardware
'unconfiguration' and 'configuration' (done only once).
The only thing you have to be aware of is that you need to check in the HCL
(hardware compatibility list) that your hardware is really compatible with
your installed OS. If a particular hardware on your mainboard is not
compatible then it wont' be recognised. So just make sure it's ok this side.
But if it's the same kind of mainboard then it shouldn't be a problem.
Kind regards,
Daniel
----- Original Message -----
From: Corey
To: CentOS discussion and information list
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 12:01 PM
Subject: [Centos] swap out mainboard
Hello!
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?
Thanks!
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