Maybe A Strange Question...

[syntruth]

Okay, I have a strange question...

Yesterday, my motherboard died. I have a new one on the way, etc, very similiar to the one that stopped working. However...I have a set up with a RAID1 mirror'd drives (/home and such) and 1 drive for /boot, /etc, and root... The RAID array is /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd -- secondary IDE master and slave, respectively, of course... Root drive is /dev/hda and DVD is /dev/hdb.

My question is this: will it be possible to simply put the drives from the old motherboard into the exact same positions on the new motherboard and -not- have to change anything, just be able to boot and just...work? Both CPUs are AMD, new one is a bit faster, but as far as I know, the kernel should just detect everything, eth0 will still be eth0, etc....right?

I'm not a linux newb by any means, but I'm trying to avoid having to re-install and set up all my daemons, RAID, etc...and in theory, this should just works since I'm using a stock ubuntu kernel. (This box is still on Breezy...)

[cmeeks2662]

Re: Maybe A Strange Question...

The changes in mother board models and firm ware may cause you problems. Also how much setup did you have to do on the raid. If the boards are the same and there was no special setup needed like flashing it should work. I have done it with tons of mother PC mother boards used in PC based point of sale equipment, just check the jumpers install memory, processors, cards and drives and plug it all in and go.

[syntruth]

Re: Maybe A Strange Question...

It's software RAID1 using mdadm, /dev/md0 after it's mounted. The box is simple, for the most part...nothing fancy other than the RAID.