On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:01:24PM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: > As it happens, Linux is very good at adapting itself for different > hardware. It is not MS-Windows XP. > > I had the experience of having been forced to perform an emergency upgrade > of my PC's motherboard. At the time I had both MS-Windows and Linux > partitions on my hard disk. > > Microsoft's software did not make the transition without having to upgrade > some obscure drivers. Linux ran on the new hardware, without any need for > modifications whatsoever.
Microsoft made a marketing decision to require a re-instalation of the operating system if you changed the motherboard. The way to prevent this is BEFORE you change create a second hardware profile with generic IDE, PCI bridge and other drivers. There are plenty of websites with instructions. After you move to the new hardware, you boot with the "generic" hardware profile, and fix your default one. A warning about expecting Linux to work with different hardware is that you need to have the device drivers it will require either in the Kernel or in the ramdisk image, if it uses one. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 Fax ONLY: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Visit my 'blog at http://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
