new hardware

thorro · 2008-10-02 12:02:38

I am going to upgrade my pc and have some questions.
Going to get me a new motherboard and cpu. From AMD 64 X2 and nvidia chipset on mb to C2Duo Q9xxx or E8xxx and intel P45 chipset.
Any precautions I must concider in advanced.
Will my pc just fire up or must i reinstall Arch?

Last edited by thorro (2008-10-02 12:10:57)

byte · 2008-10-02 12:57:30

If you have the autodetect hook in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf you should probably take it out and recreate the image with mkinitcpio -p kernel26 before shutting down the old system. Otherwise the new one won't start up properly because of a different chipset and hard disk controller.

thorro · 2008-10-02 13:41:06

My mkinitcpio.conf looks like this:

MODULES=""

BINARIES=""

FILES=""

HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata scsi sata filesystems"

So i can just run mkinitcpio -p kernel26 before i shut the it down

arch0r · 2008-10-02 13:44:31

built in a new mainboard this weeak because of an issue caused by the pcie slot. i tried to boot into my old system but it hanged and freezed all the time. so i made a fresh reinstall: all modules and drivers were correctly detected. everything's running fine again.

byte · 2008-10-02 22:33:58

I told you to remove the "autodetect" hook, else the initramfs will only contain the modules for your current mainboard. Removing it and rebuilding the image will make it much bigger but you can at least be sure that it will contain all existing drivers for disk controllers.

thorro · 2008-10-03 07:13:55

hmm think i have a hardtime understanding things these days.
autodetect will remove it.
found also some help here
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mki … _the_HOOKS
If i understand it right I should add autodetect again after I got the machine up running again

Last edited by thorro (2008-10-03 07:14:41)

dav7 · 2008-10-03 07:23:40

Yes, that sounds about right.

thorro · 2008-10-04 07:34:25

Pc is up and running fine again
Only thing that didn't work was sensors and sound , but that wasn't to hard to get up running.:)

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