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marius-arc

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Registered: 2016-04-17

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[SOLVED] Upgradering my computer. Will it work?

Hi all,
I'm going to swap out my old 2500k with a new Ryzen 7 1700. That means motherboard, ram, the whole thing.
I am wondering if I will be able to boot up my Arch install afterwards?
I am going to make sure my fstab uses UUIDs and the graphics card will still be Nvidia. Are there other things to keep in mind?

This Arch install was my first foray into Linux and I've tweaked it so much over the past year that I'd really like to keep it.

Last edited by marius-arc (2017-05-21 07:53:59)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] Upgradering my computer. Will it work?

It should boot fine, although you may need to use the fallback image at first.

Keep in mind there have been several threads about instability on ryzen systems that appear to be related to memory type and buggy firmware.
Make sure you backup your system before replacing parts.

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drcouzelis

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Re: [SOLVED] Upgradering my computer. Will it work?

I recently did a similar upgrade!

Yes, replacing the CPU, motherboard, and RAM should be no problem for your Arch Linux installation.

Are you currently booting using MBR or UEFI?

marius-arc

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Registered: 2016-04-17

Posts: 42

Re: [SOLVED] Upgradering my computer. Will it work?

It wen't suprisingly well. First boot I got stuck in emergency mode. Can't remember what I did, but it was something trivial like uncomment something in fstab.
I removed my wifi card and uninstalled it's driver, but something is still trying to start something at boot making it wait 1m30s. I'll look into it one day.
All in all very happy it went so "smooth"!

drcouzelis, using MBR. The BIOS was set to something like "Legacy first, then UEFI" so that thought didn't hit me until later when I was perusing the BIOS options

felipe

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Registered: 2013-06-29

Posts: 70

Re: [SOLVED] Upgradering my computer. Will it work?

Hi!
What motherboard are you using ? I hear that some motherboard were failing like gigabyte AB350 and msi msi b350m can't find the link (other websites)
I'm using MBR on a old bios AM2, I guess I will have to reinstall to support UEFI

Last edited by felipe (2017-05-26 21:43:55)

shulamy

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Registered: 2010-09-11

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Re: [SOLVED] Upgradering my computer. Will it work?

i just moved my disks to a different computer yesterday and forgot to choose "fallback"

but had no problems booting, not with arch and not with fedora .

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