swapping out mb and cpu
Eric Schuele
e.schuele at computer.org
Sun Apr 9 14:16:18 UTC 2006
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
>
> On Apr 8, 2006, at 9:51 PM, John Cruz wrote:
>
>> As far as I know, as long as your drive configuration is the the same
>> (/root on ide0 disk 1 would be ide0 disk 1 on the new machine as well)
>> then it should work without a hitch. I'll be upgrading my machine in
>> the near future as well, so any insight on this is much apprecaited.
>
>
> Should be ok (both above and below) as long as you move all the SCSI
> cards or map your ide/sata drives the same. I have done this before
> without issue
>
I'm no expert, but I would think its worth mentioning that a GENERIC
kernel, or one relatively uncustomized would be necessary. If you have
removed options/devices from your kernel config file that a necessary
for the new mb/cpu... then you might hit a bump.
> Chad
>
>>
>> -John
>>
>> je killen wrote:
>>> Hello;
>>> I have a machine running with FreeBSD 6.0 running on AMD64 socket 754
>>> and Elite Group motherboard. It has been up and running without
>>> problem continuously for about 5 weeks now (although I am the only
>>> one connecting to it at present). I have purchased
>>> a new mother board and cpu. The new mb is Gigabyte GA-K8N-SLI and the
>>> new cpu is Athlon 64 socket 939. It has extended PCI slots and I am
>>> planning on swapping the FreeBSD installation to the new motherboard
>>> and processor. If I just move the hard drives
>>> and SCSI adapter to the new machine will it run on the different
>>> motherboard and processor? Or do I have to install FreeBSD
>>> specifically on the new machine?
>>> The reason I'm considering this is because the AMD64 754 machine has
>>> a SCSI adapter made for an extended PCI slot.
>>> The mb has only standard PCI slots so the adapter isn't being used
>>> optimally. So I would be swapping the main drive (ata) and two SCSI
>>> drives (assigned usr and var partitions, respectively), as well as
>>> the adapter.
>>> Is this possible?
>>> Thanks in advance;
>>> JK
>>>
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Eric
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