Swaping mobo and cpu.... Will this work?

kernelcowboy

I have a really old pII 400Mhz system that is a file and print server
with some other minor services. I have a new MOBO and cpu. The
MOBO is a amd64/32 K8 939 socket, and the cpu is a 3000+.

Assuming the "newer" hd will work with the board (ATA), do you think the gentoo
system will startup ok? At least enough to get prompt and fix it.

The chipsets and nic are probably worlds apart But, the system
was compiled with -march=pentium2. So, perhaps it will just run as
a pII running on the k8 chip, with services not coming up? Or may be I'm
headed for a kernel panic.

If it comes up, I would need to then reconfigure the kernel probably, and compile it. I'm
guess for the nic.

There's no Xorg or even a monitor on this machine, so I don't have a worry about that all working.

Perhaps I should just wait and do it all later when I can get a new drive for the setup. Or I could
just boot off a install disk, and fix it in place - if that's possible.

thoughts?

sonicbhoc · Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 1:57 am Post subject:

You should be able to get away with just recompiling the kernel.

If you want to get everything out of your system, you should recompile it with the proper march though.
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kernelcowboy · Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 2:04 am Post subject:

Agreed. I'm trying to cut corners here

Step 1 would be to just get it up and at some point that I could administer it.

Step 2 would be to recompile. However, I've hard switching the arch and recompile
isn't a good idea. So, mmmm, perhaps a reinstall is the best plan here.

sonicbhoc · Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 11:38 am Post subject:

Not really...

The issue is changing chosts that gets people into trouble, not GCC parameters.

There are ways to change your chost without re-installing, but you might want to ask around about that if you want to. Re-emerging world probably takes less time than re-installing, too, because your configs are still intact.
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