Changing MB and CPU - reinstall of Fedora needed?

Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it
Mon Jun 11 19:55:57 UTC 2012


On 06/11/2012 08:57 PM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
> I will be moving from an AMD FX-8120 to an Intel i7 3930K, which of course means I will be changing my motherboard as well. All other relevant system components will stay the same (including the HDD and any data on it).
> 
> I just wondered if Fedora can accomodate the new hardware directly, or if there are any procedures I should go through after booting again? Could a reinstall be needed? I am guessing I will not have a problem booting, since Grub is installed on the MBR of the drive, and I believe the new MB will search this first for a bootloader.
> 
> Thanks in advance for all help!

You may have to tweak the network configuration, as it could be bound
to the ethernet MAC address.
All the rest will probably just work or be trivial to fix.

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   Roberto Ragusa    mail at robertoragusa.it


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