[SOLVED] Can I plug my Lenny install into a new Gigabyte GA-EP43T-UD3L box?

pljvaldez · 12-18-2009, 04:40 PM

Several weeks back I had a motherboard failure occur. I've since bought new parts and am planning on putting the thing together this weekend. By all accounts, the new board should be supported by the existing Lenny 2.6.26 kernel. The board is a Gigabyte GA-EP43T-UD3L with the following components

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Chipsets
North Bridge 	Intel P43
South Bridge 	Intel ICH10

Onboard Audio
Audio Chipset 	Realtek ALC888

Onboard LAN
LAN Chipset 	Realtek 8111C

Since the board should be supported, do you think I can just plug the old drive into the new board and have a working system? I'm just trying to get a warm fuzzy before I try it. If not, I'll move the user files off somewhere with a Live CD and reinstall. Just hoping to save a bit of pain reconfiguring the MythTV backend on this box. Also, if for some reason it fails with Lenny, I'll just put Squeeze on the box.

AleLinuxBSD · 12-18-2009, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by pljvaldez

I can just plug the old drive into the new board and have a working system?

I don't think is possible because your hardware is different.
You should reinstall the OS.

the trooper · 12-18-2009, 04:55 PM

If it was my machine,i'd try plugging the drive in and see what happened.
If your motherboard is already fried i don't see what you have to lose.

pljvaldez · 12-30-2009, 01:02 AM

FYI, it worked just plugging the drive into the new hardware. I love linux!

I had to fiddle a bit with the udev rules to make the new onboard adapter eth0 and have it quit griping the that the old one isn't there. Oh and I had to re-run the sensors-detect to get CPU temps.

Otherwise things are going well. Now if only I could figure out how to make the BIOS boot from the first SATA drive by default instead of having to use the BIOS boot menu...