May I enquire.. This swapping - was the drive position always drive one? If I swap on my machine drive two to drive one I get a kernel panic. Are you somehow tricking linux to accept this? Enjoy Johan ************ ----- Original Message ----- From: "T. Ribbrock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 8:43 AM Subject: Re: motherboard change
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 02:58:55PM -0400, Vince Scimeca wrote: > > I have also pulled drives from one box and put them in others using RH > > 7.2 with no real issues. These were vastly different boxes with > > different boards, processors memory etc. For me, RH detected the > > changes in sound and video etc on bootup and asked me to accept the > > changes. I never had an issue doing this...maybe I was just lucky?! > > Nah, that's the way it should be. This isn't Windows... > > Same here, BTW. I've swapped drives between boxes quite often and never had > an issue. With one single exception: I once swapped a drive from a Pentium > machine to a 486 - and forgot that I had recompiled the kernel for Pentium. > For obvious reasons, that didn't quite work... ;-) > > One thing to keep in mind, however, is that even with a stock kernel > (which most people will use anyway) you will have to reconfigure a few > bits and pieces. Things like video and sound come to mind, as well as > network cards and USB, maybe even IDE and SCSI, depending on your > setup. Personally, I usually disable kudzu, as it takes another few > seconds during boot, so I either have to configure things manually or > I run kudzu manually. > > Cheerio, > > Thomas > -- > ==> RH List Archive: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=redhat-list&r=1&w=2 <== > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- > Thomas Ribbrock http://www.ribbrock.org > "You have to live on the edge of reality - to make your dreams come true!" > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
