New motherboard, need a new install?

Miles28 · 2009-02-10 10:46:46

Hi, I have currently archlinux in a pentium 4 2.8 and abit motherboard.
I'm going to change it for a socket 775 m-atx msi motherboard with an intel 5200 processor. Satadisk will be the same one.

My question is if I will need to make a new and clean archlinux installation or it will get the new configuration except xorg.

Thanks in advance.

lucke · 2009-02-10 11:00:59

No need to reinstall - you probably will have to boot with kernel-fallback.img and rebuild the image, and change modules in rc.conf if you aren't using module autoloading.

afonic · 2009-02-10 14:24:16

I have changed 3 motherboards (and one of them was a platform change from AMD to Intel) and I am still using my same old Arch installation from the 2.6.20 (voodoo!) days.

Just use hwd to see what modules you need, edit your rc.conf and you are good to go.

Mr Green · 2009-02-10 14:54:38

You could try booting Arch Fallback... you may need to chroot in using a live cd to fix some things but you should not need to reinstall

Miles28 · 2009-02-11 15:56:26

Mr Green wrote:

You could try booting Arch Fallback... you may need to chroot in using a live cd to fix some things but you should not need to reinstall

Not sure if I understand. I tought what I'll have to do is to init the system selecting Archlinux fallback from grub, without using any live cd.

Last edited by Miles28 (2009-02-11 15:57:08)

R00KIE · 2009-02-11 22:39:43

It depends, that may work or not but give it a go.
I've taken my arch install from a laptop that died, inserted the hd in a box and every pc that I could plug it and boot from usb would do the trick, lastly I have transfered everything to the hd of my new notebook and guess what, still working linux rules there
But like afonic said, you will need to edit your rc.conf and maybe your xorg.conf if you still use it.

toad · 2009-02-11 22:50:26

So you are changing from 32 bit to 64 bit? Are you likely to move up to 4GB RAM or more at any time in the future? If so you have three choices:

1. bin the extra RAM
2. if you stay on a 32 bit system, recompile your kernel
3. install a 64 bit system and be done with it

I am writing from my brand new 64-bit install (put the new motherboard in this pm )

fwitiw, I've got a separate home partition as well as one for multimedia and a few more for other personal and business stuff. My / is pretty much on its own so using another system is no bother - it looks the same, smells the same, heck, it even tastes the same. One difference I noticed though was that when I click on openoffice I can't even say Gorden Bennett before the whole suite is up! Like shit off a shovel

Miles28 · 2009-02-28 11:08:31

Well, it's been very easy.
- Arch Fallback, for testing.
- kernel reinstall.
- hwd -e, to detect modules. Edit rc.conf and write new modules.
- Install intel xorg package and edit xorg.conf to use new device.

Everything works right.

Thanks all of you for your help.

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#1 2009-02-10 10:46:46

New motherboard, need a new install?

#2 2009-02-10 11:00:59

Re: New motherboard, need a new install?

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