Changing MB and CPU - reinstall of Fedora needed?

[David G. Miller]

Christopher Svanefalk <christopher.svanefalk <at> gmail.com> writes:

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> 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!
> -- Best,
> Christopher Svanefalk
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I pretty much do this every day.  I have FC 16 installed on an external hard
drive.  I have a system at home and a system at work that are both set up to
boot from an external drive.  The work system has an Intel i3 CPU, Intel
graphics, etc.  The home system has an AMD Athlon CPU, ATI graphics, etc.  Not
sure about the sound hardware but the work system is from 2005 while the work
system is recent so little likelihood it's the same.  About the only part that's
not transparent is I have to run xrandr after I startx to get things to display
on the right monitors.

Carrying the external hard drive between locations definitely beats lugging a
system back and forth.

Cheers,
Dave