New MB recommendations

[Tony Alfrey]

Net Llama! wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Tony Alfrey wrote:

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>> I would try to keep the same controller.
>> I would try to simply swap out the MB and fire it up.  Will my older
>> kernels work on a P4, for example?
> 
> Depends on how customized those old kernels are.  If its a distro kernel, 
> then it should be fine, except for the initrd.
> 

Tell me about that for a minute.  I haven't looked at that for awhile 
(making an initrd).  Is that generated by the distro installer?  In the 
past, I have been able to copy an entire hard disk, OS and all, onto a 
new disk and have that disk boot.  But that was always on this same P2 
machine.  It sounds like I will not be able to just pop my old drive 
from the P2 into a P4 and have it boot?

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Tony Alfrey
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