OK, I currently have a Tyan 1854 Trinity 400 mobo with an Intel 600mhz cpu and 512 megs of ram. I recently bought a Tyan KT-A 2390B mobo with an AMD 1.33Gig CPU and I run Mandrake 9.1 PowerPack, Kernel 2.4.21-0.13MDK. So, what it amounts to is taking everything from the Trinity 400 board, DVD player, CDRW, SB 5.1 sndcd, nVid 64 meg pci card, the 512 megs of Ram and connecting it to the KT-A board. Now, will I have to re-install Linux over Linux, or reformat my partition with Linux on it?? Or will what I have on this hard drive search for and make corrections to the different mobo??

Thanx for any help.

Pepse.

"will what I have on this hard drive search for and make corrections to the different mobo??"

No. That is done by the Mandrake installer. It configures the installed system to the hardware configuration that it finds.

You probably have a kernel compiled for an Intel cpu. I think that should work on an AMD cpu but you might want to reinstall later to get a kernel that Mandrake has compiled for AMD.

Other than that everything should work OK as long as it is at the same address on the new machine as it was on the old. So I think that you should be able to use your Linux software as it is.

Before you make the move you should back everything up in case you do have to install again.

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OK, now if I understand this right, it is "possible" that just by switching everything over like I said it "could" work OK?? And yes I would be going from an Intel CPU to an AMD. Your second paragraph states ".................... but you might want to re-install later to get a kernel that MDK has compiled for AMD". Are you saying that MDK is at present not compatible with AMD or are you saying that if I re-installed the 9.1 CD that there is kernel source for AMD on it?? And, when you mention to "back up everything", I consider (tho I could be wrong) that all I would lose is what's on my "hda1" partition which is MDK 9.1 and probably my 3rd to the latest nVidia driver and probably my DVD driver. And in my opinion that ain't no big deal because when I ran whine-doze re-installing the software was a common occourence. Oh, and to talk of your first line that, to me, sounds like I should run the 9.1 CD's??

Pepse.

"Are you saying that MDK is at present not compatible with AMD or are you saying that if I re-installed the 9.1 CD that there is kernel source for AMD on it??"

Mandrake has a kernel source for AMD. When you run the Mandrake installer it chooses a kernel which was compiled for the CPU it is installing on.

And, when you mention to "back up everything", I consider (tho I could be wrong) that all I would lose is what's on my "hda1" partition which is MDK 9.1 and probably my 3rd to the latest nVidia driver and probably my DVD driver."

Back up anything that would be a pain in the butt to recreate if you accidently lost the entire hard drive.

"Oh, and to talk of your first line that, to me, sounds like I should run the 9.1 CD's??"

Only if you have to do a reinstall to get Mandrake to do a proper configuration on your new setup.

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i move linux hard drives around between intel and amd and different motherboard
chipsets all the time. The only time i run into trouble is when i have applications
that i specifically compiled for a certain cpu will not work. Or if i have some settings
specific to a certain motherboard that i did my self.
If you're having to ask questions about this type of thing, then you probably haven't
done anything that's going to cause trouble.
An athlon will work fine with a pentium or pentium pro optimized kernel and software.
So anything you could run on the intel 600 mhz would work on the athlon.

Just think how bad a knoppix cd would work if it was hard to change that stuff.
It's not like windows that goes ape shit when you change the motherboard.

HOLY COW!! I couldn't believe how simple that was. It was like I didn't change a thing. At this time I don't plan on changing anything unless someone thinks I should. Everything thing seems pretty stable. I plan on getting MDK 10.0 PowerPack when it comes out in May. And yes, Whansard, I know how bad whine-doze is when it comes to changing mobo's; god what a nightmare.. That is why I posted this situation. I can also understand the Knoppix thing.

Now I hate to start a thread within a thread but I heard/read awhile back that MDK doesn't read ram higher than 512 megs. Is that true?? Is there a patch for that?? This newer mobo is capable of running 1.5 Gigs of ram and it is something I would like to do, possibly before I get 10.0; in which case I would hope that issue is resolved by then.

Thanx very much for everbodys help.

Pepse.

that ram issue probably isn't true, and even if it is, it would be a kernel issue. easily solvable with a new kernel.

there's a kernel option where you can compile for more than 1 gig of ram (really 960 megs i think). most distributions come with a kernel that has that option enabled. i have a gig of ram and leave that option unchecked because i ran a few benchmarks and found that to use that option slowed my machine down, maybe 5% or something like that, i can't remember. i'm using several non-standard patches in my kernel, so i don't know if that would be true with a vanilla kernel in my machine or not.