Thomas Anderson <thomas.ander...@little-beak.com> writes: > I am curious, what would happen if I threw a fully functionally, > > Linux installation (HDD) into an entirely different hardware configuration: > > Different Process AMD->Intel? > > Ram/mobo I assume doesn't matter? > > I half expect it to boot up, and be fully functional.
I fully expect this to work. It has for me in the past. Of course, with no knowledge of your systems the answer is actually "it depends." But even when I ran a custom kernel with just the drivers I needed, all I needed to do was add the drivers the new system needed beforehand. This was the bad old days when there were other common SATA interfaces than AHCI. In fact, I have the inner parts for a new desktop waiting as I want to do more than just clone my old system there. I've come to realize I want to build the new system in a new case so that I can work on it while keeping my old system running. But still, the first step for me is cloning my boot SSD and putting it in the new system. I'll have little difference in the old and new desktop. CPU architecture is still x86-64, video is same NVidia, storage is same old AHCI SATA + NVMe SSD. So it should boot. Networking is different and will need a firmware package, maybe a newer kernel from backports. Wifi and bluetooth are new and likely need same. I can actually do these things beforehand. Probably some other minor interfaces will need tweaking, sensors is a thing that's usually different on different motherboards for example. The second step for me is converting from FAT partition table and BIOS boot to GPT partition table and UEFI boot. Should be possible but with Windows 10, Debian and Arch on the drive it's a tiny little bit more complicated.
