Nice and easy hardware upgrade!

madeye · 2007-10-12 19:46:14

Now this really impressed me.
I just upgraded my computer. And guess what, afterwards I got a kernel panic!
I wasn't particular surprised though. After all, I had just changed Motherboard, CPU, Ram and GFX card.

To fix it I just booted the arch install CD, chroot'ed into my installation. Installed the kernel, and I was ready to go again. The wiki was a real help there.

hussam · 2007-10-12 20:29:09

Yes, this is what's great about Linux.
In early 2006, I moved my hard disks from a Intel processor to a AMD 2300+ computer and ArchLinux just booted like nothing had happened.
If this were windows, there would be no escaping a full reinstall.

Pierre · 2007-10-12 20:55:00

And it's even easier. Just boot with fallback-image and run "mkinitcpio -p kernel26". :-)

gazj · 2007-10-12 21:20:57

I went from a Dell latitude c600 to a ibm x20, (it had no os or cd drive), really wasn't expecting it to boot, took me quite by suprise.

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phildg · 2007-10-13 07:13:06

Pierre wrote:

And it's even easier. Just boot with fallback-image and run "mkinitcpio -p kernel26". :-)

Thats exactly what I did a few days ago after upgrading from an Athlon64 2800+ to a Core 2 Duo, worked perfectly.

madeye · 2007-10-14 07:13:45

Pierre wrote:

And it's even easier. Just boot with fallback-image and run "mkinitcpio -p kernel26". :-)

Unfortunately this didn't work for me. I also got a kernel panic when trying to boot the fallback image.
No matter, It worked the other way!

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Nice and easy hardware upgrade!

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