Motherboard swapout - is reinstall necessary?

[ScottyK]

Did a motherboard swapout on the kids computer. I know I have to reinstall the XP partition, but curious if I have to also reinstall the 11.10 partition.

[blobfish]

Re: Motherboard swapout - is reinstall necessary?

I have had pretty good luck NOT reloading in these situations.

[silviucc]

Re: Motherboard swapout - is reinstall necessary?

I upgraded my rig this summer to a new mobo (Asus P8P67LE) + i5 2500k. The only OS that needed reinstall was Windows. My 10.04 LTS install auto detected stuff and kept going & going like the energizer bunny

Seems linux is "magical' that way.

[jlittle]

Re: Motherboard swapout - is reinstall necessary?

I had a mobo fail with Karmic, and could not get the sound to go on the replacement. The on-board sound chips were different. A reinstall of Lucid brought the sound back.

[oshunluvr]

Re: Motherboard swapout - is reinstall necessary?

IMO as long as you're using the correct kernel for your architecture, you're fine.

Stuff like the sound card can usually be fixed with a re-configure.

[woodsmoke]

Re: Motherboard swapout - is reinstall necessary?

I've changed out mobos quite often and used the same hard drive, with distro, many times.

However, as stated above. sometimes a sound setup can be a problem and the best solution may be one of a couple of options. Do the first boot without your fancy sound card let things settle out and then reboot with the new card. The same thing might also apply to video if you have an onboard video. Another option is to reuse the original video/sound card and then swap out for the new.

But the mobo itself, unless it is really off the wall, should not be a problem for the distro, given that you don't actually change from intel to AMD, as stated above.

woodsmoke

[nukedathlonman]

Re: Motherboard swapout - is reinstall necessary?

Even going from Intel to AMD or vise versa it *shouldn't* be a problem. The first time I installed Kubuntu was onto an Acer 5002wlmi laptop back in 2006 (full SiS based AMD Turion 64) , I transfered that to a Dell Vostro 1720 (full Intel system with GeForce 9600M GS and 1920x1200 screen), and now (2 days ago) onto my new o-clock AMD Phenom II x6 1055T based system (AMD chipset, & AMD Radeon 9770). The nice thing about Linux is the worst thing that can break is any added binary blob drivers (like FRGL and Nvidia's closed drivers), and 9 time's out of 10 if they do blow up you can recover from it. It should work fine unless the new computer has really bleeding edge hardware.

[Detonate]

Re: Motherboard swapout - is reinstall necessary?

To avoid the hassle of reinstalling Windows if you should have to change a major component such as the MD or processor in the future, install your Windows in a virtual machine. Then it too, will work without reinstalling. I use Virtualbox, others here on the forum use VMWare, either will work.

[ScottyK]

Re: Motherboard swapout - is reinstall necessary?

But the mobo itself, unless it is really off the wall, should not be a problem for the distro, given that you don't actually change from intel to AMD, as stated above.

woodsmoke

Went back and looked at the components, and realized that I was going from Intel to AMD. So decided to reinstall everything. Still a lot quicker to reinstall Kubuntu than it is for Windows!

[Detonate]

Re: Motherboard swapout - is reinstall necessary?

I wish you would have tried it first. I have changed MB's and processors from Intel to AMD and vice-versa with no problems.

[ScottyK]

Re: Motherboard swapout - is reinstall necessary?

Ha, me too! Now I'm running into problems getting the installer to see the different partitions.

This old box may be too much for 11.10, might have to upgrade hardware, or downgrade to something else.