[Preston] question

[Phil Robinson]

Yeah this is true Guy, I have knoppix as a hard disk install and it still 
does the autodetection on boot, although you can turn it off, I leave it on 
as it's in a test machine that I constantly change the hardware in. :-)

I think the kernel panic will be from the vast amount on smaller bits of 
hardware that build up your motherboard, the OS to a certain degree would 
need to be aware of things like PCI bus, DMA, SCSI etc. With today's trend 
of sticking everything possible into the motherboard the chances of any OS 
not reacting badly when you change it is slim.

Let's us know how it goes if you decide to try it,

Phil


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Guy Heatley" <guy.heatley at gmail.com>
To: "Preston and Lancashire Linux User Group" <preston at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Cc: "ian.bullard" <ian.bullard at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 5:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Preston] question


I'm not sure booting of an old installation with a new motherboard
will work very well. I have always got a kernel panic in the past when
I have tried this, although I can't remember the exact reasons given
for the panic.
I think certain things are configured on install or else why isn't
every distro a "live" one. Knoppix when booting from CD must use some
autodetection of hardware that isn't present when a "normal"  hard
disk installed distro boots.

Good luck!
--
Guy

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