From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: new install for a new mainboard?
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 22:20:08 -0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rqu6uo$jh2$2@ciao.gmane.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3360702.WD6VjIQDTK@eve
On 2020-12-10, J. Roeleveld <joost@antarean.org> wrote:
> On Thursday, December 10, 2020 4:23:09 PM CET n952162 wrote:
>> I need a new mainboard. What will happen if I boot my existing system
>> on it?
>>
>> If it would come up, what would need to be (re)emerged, as a minimum?
>>
>> TIA
>
> Unless you really reduced the drivers available on your system or
> you're going to a lesser system (64 -> 32bit, or something like
> that), I would expect the system to simply boot.
Many of us do "reduce the drivers availabing" to match just the
hardware in our system.
> If not, you only need a live-cd/usb/... and rebuild the kernel and
> any drivers your new system needs.
> It's not MS Windows that might try to load incompatible drivers and
> ends up with a blue-screen.
Well, the screen doesn't turn blue, but it's possible the kernel won't
even boot.
--
Grant
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-10 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-10 15:23 [gentoo-user] new install for a new mainboard? n952162
2020-12-10 15:38 ` Matt Connell (Gmail)
2020-12-10 15:49 ` J. Roeleveld
2020-12-10 16:07 ` Matt Connell (Gmail)
2020-12-10 22:20 ` Grant Edwards [this message]
2020-12-10 23:37 ` Miles Malone
2020-12-10 16:46 ` Raffaele BELARDI
2020-12-10 18:18 ` Rich Freeman
2020-12-10 21:18 ` n952162
2020-12-10 21:53 ` Rich Freeman
2020-12-11 6:08 ` n952162
2020-12-11 16:44 ` antlists
2020-12-10 22:18 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
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