> Oh yeah here's one for joe-user. You want to upgrade you PII/K62 system > to a P4/Athlon. So you buy a CPU and mother board, maybe new memory if > needed. With linux, I swap the MB/CPU and reattach the disks and other > cards. It boots and runs. Sue a few tweeks migh help for the new CPU > type, but it's faster than before. Try that with M$-Windows. I'll bet > you end up re installing the OS, and all your apps, before it runs > reasonably stable. This isn't too much to add to the discussion, but we just did this very thing with a few PCs in the office this week. We were going from P3 to AthlonXPs on ASUS nForce chipset motherboards. After installing the MB/CPU/RAM on my RedHat 8.0 machine, I was up and running. Two other guys with XP Professional got past the BIOS POST and then just nothing. No output at all. One had the exact same Quantum HD I do, other with a Seagate. The machines would boot off a CD fine (actually booting from the RedHat SysAdmin Rescue CD I could see their ntfs partitions). The XP Pro "repair" didn't make any difference. We had to copy their data to another PC and reinstall XP Professional. Now, it may be a weird incompatibility with the nForce, but it really sounds like a Windows boot loader problem. So the moral is, the generalized GNU/Linux way of doing things worked better. _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list Redhat-devel-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
