On 11/26/2015 04:00 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 11:57:18AM -0600, Mike Chambers wrote:
> Hi all and Happy Thanksgiving,
>
> Could I take 2 HD's out of 1 computer, move them to a different
> computer, obviously having to reinstall grub and such, would they work
> without having to do much of anything else?
>
> I know I have to make sure the correct one is booted up and how they
> are connected, and the BIOS sees them correctly.
>
> Anything else to know first? The computers are both pretty new so not
> like going from 10 year old to a 1 year old or anything, both only 3-5
> years old even if that old.
that's how I "built" the system I have now. Had a pair of drives
in software RAID-1. pulled 'em out of the old system, plugged 'em
into the new system and voila (nearly) everything worked. One bottleneck
was the network wasn't working until I fixed the hard-coded MAC addresses
in the NIC configuration. can't think of anything else, right now, that
didn't work.
I did precisely this. The old mobo (three year old AMD Phenom,
dual-core hyperthread for 4 cores) went kffffft! Swapped it out with a
new Gigabyte Z97M-DS3H (Intel i7 quad-core, hyperthread for 8 cores).
Booted just fine (after it rebuilt the video driver). Had to modify the
network config for the new MAC address, but all was well.
All done on F22. Works a treat.
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